1001 Stories Podcast Network with host Jon Hagadorn
NEWSLETTER
September 14, 2025
Enjoy 12 unique storytelling podcasts- all Hand -picked, stories to challenge your intellect, increase your vocabulary, improve your writing skills, and enrich your knowledge of our history and culture.
Hello 1001 Stories Network family
Here are the highlights for the coming week, beginning Sept 14th
1001 True Crime From Another Time comes back with Crime Classics ‘Blackbeard’s 14th Wife’ and ‘The Triangle on the Round Table’- two interesting takes on history. Listener caution: Blackbeard is very fictional but entertaining.
https://www.bestof1001stories.com/show/1001-true-crime-from-another-time-with-host-jon-hagadorn/
We do offer the true story of Blackbeard at 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries (both episodes ) here:
https://www.bestof1001stories.com/show/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/
By the way, we have done a number of those 1953 Crime Classics at 1001 True Crime From Another Time and usually they give you a good story- here’s description of the show
True Crime from Another Time - Crime Classics
Crime Classics came to CBS September 30, 1953 and was a neat little series of "true crime stories". The show introduced itself succinctly: "Crime Classics, a series of true crime stories from the records and newspapers of every land, from every time. Your host each week, Mr. Thomas Hyland -- connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders."
Thomas Hyland was played by Lou Merrill, although you'd never know it was an "actor" doing the part. The great Elliott Lewis, actor, producer and director of Suspense, Broadway is My Beat, and On Stage is in charge of this very intelligent and enjoyable show. Bernard Herrmann composed the music that duplicated authentic music of the era being dramatized. Morton Fine and David Friedkin wrote the scripts. Lewis and his writers collected and developed true crime stories expressly for Crime Classics.
Thomas Hyland's delivery is measured and mild-mannered, as if giving a college lecture. Would that all professors were this interesting! The actors in the stories themselves are uniformly sensitive. Orchestral scores by the great Bernard Hermann, who did Orson Welles' Mercury Theater radio show and then Alfred Hitchcock's films, give the stories sophistication and mood. So do the tasteful sound effects. There is a wry, cool-blooded tone to the proceedings.
Cases profiled on the series ranged from seventeenth-century murder to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Each and every story, however bizarre, is actually based on fact.
For example, the show about the Younger Brothers of the American West has some very interesting background details concerning Quantrell's Raiders and the Kansas Jayhawks.
In the story of "John Hayes, his Head, and How They Were Parted," we hear the tale of a glassblower who blows glass perfectly and completely surrounding the severed head of an unknown dead man and placed it in glass. Then it was placed in a museum where it remained pending identification. Thus his killers were found by the dead man, using his head.