Complex sentence: On radio he performed for 11 years in the daytime soap opera "Bachelor's Children", and beginning in 1943, he did lead male characters on radio's famed "The First Nighter Program" for nine years.
Split into simpler sentences: On radio he performed for eleven years in the daytime soap opera "Bachelor's Children". Beginning in 1943, he did lead male characters on radio's famed "The First Nighter Program" for nine years.