{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Presenting the Transcription Feature 178: THIS IS YOUR FBI & JACK BENNY","description":"Here\u2019s two more Christmas episodes to round out this December.  We\u2019ll start off with a drama, then some comedy.  \u201cThis Is Your FBI\u201d ran on ABC radio from April of 1945 to January of 1953.  It dramatized real cases from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.  No less than the head of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, praised the show, calling it \u201cthe finest dramatic program on the air.\u201d  Then for comedy, who else but the crew from \u201cThe Jack Benny Program.\u201d  This episode is from December 1937.  The show had been on the air for five years, and this is the first of what would become a regular holiday feature, Jack going Christmas shopping.  It doesn\u2019t feature Jack being indecisive over a gift, which I always thought they overused, but it does have the usual stable of crazy fellow shoppers and employees, including Frank Nelson as the floorwalker. Episodes This Is Your FBI December 24, 1948 \u201cThe Return of St. Nick\u201d 2:18 Jack Benny December 12, 1937 \u201cChristmas Shopping\u201d 33:41 ","author_name":"The Chronic Rift Network","author_url":"http:\/\/chronicriftnetwork.libsyn.com","html":"