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By LISA G. CURRIE

Rappahannock News Staff Writer

Long before television, video, compact disc and cassette recordings, there was radio.

Before audiences sat down to watch favorites like “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and “Father Knows Best,” radio shows captured th& family audience and kept them spellbound nightly.

Those were the days of “The Shadow,” the alter-ego of Lamont Cranston, private detective; those were the days before anyone saw Tonto with the Lone Ranger as they too were radio characters, their voices booming into living rooms across the nation as family ears listened and radio audiences sighed, gasped and cheered their heros to victory.

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