About the Show
A Family Program! An alternative to 21st century technology games and videos. Join me for eight hours of classic old time radio comedy and drama, detectives and thrillers with jazz, blues, Dixieland and big band music from the 20’s through the 40’s.
Christine comes by her love of music genuinely. Her Pop, Johnny Guarnieri, career from 1939 to 1984, included playing with Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, both Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, as well as George Hall and other big band orchestras. He became involved with literally hundreds of studio work on radio and then television. In addition, he directed and composed shows for Army recruitment.
It was a trip to NBC when Christine was with her Mum picking Johnny up after a radio show. That is when she saw her first set of headphones, on her Pop, as he played the piano and directed his band. She simply had to have them.
She produces an eight-hour weekly program (Saturday 6 pm-2 am EST) of interviews, history of radio, and classic radio comedy and drama, and period jazz, blues and big band. Many of her Pop’s original recordings.
She created the “Constellation Cowboy” segment, consisting of live interviews with Astronomer, Dr. Russ Sampson, on contemporary and historical celestial events. And expanded this educational format to include segments “Digging with Drzewiecki” segment with Dr. Peter A. Drzewiecki and “Consequential Chronicles” segment with Dr. Stacey Close. She also has ‘special topics’ that are relevant to the university as well as the local and global community. Topics include Technology in the classroom, Domestic Violence issues, Suicide Prevention among Veterans, and for years the Annual Cancer Special during Relay For Life, interviewing survivors and broadcasting live from the event.
Fourteen years ago, she brought the Old Time Radio shows to life with The Chatterbox Players. Her friends and family who have presented holiday specials for the local community at no charge and that are simultaneously broadcast over the internet.
January 2026 she will begin her 26th year of broadcasting.