Jean Shepherd: Security Blankets
Humorist Jean Shepherd 1921-1999, creator/narrator of the holiday movie favoriteA Christmas Storyand author of numerous other works of fiction and television, had a long and stellar career on radio and was heard most days during the period of 1955-1977 on WOR radio in New York, a clear-channel station heard along the Eastern seaboard and points west. Shepherd s radio work was both unique and transitional in the development of today s talk radio. Shepherd could talk, and talk he did, touching his listeners intimately as if speaking to an audience of one. Shepherd was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 2005.