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WeEarth Global Radio Network is pleased to present selected episodes of Golden Age Radio, featuring old time radio shows that are universally regarded to have been extraordinary achievements in an era when radio was new, and ruled the entertainment sphere..

This episode:

Laurel and Hardy in Slater’s Poultry Market

Better known for the movie work, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy created Slater’s Poultry Market as a pilot for a proposed radio show — and that Pilot has become a classic even though the show was shelved.

The premise for the series is simple — each week, Stan and Ollie are looking for work, and begin a new job.  In Slater’s Poultry Market, the job is to kill and deliver chickens.   At the outset they arrive at the wrong address, are mistaken by a gang of mobsters as two killers-for-hire, and mayhem ensues.

Unlike Laurel & Hardy’s only other available radio appearance, “The Wedding Night”,  Slater’s was not written by Stan Laurel.  Throughout, the show moves forward based on verbal misunderstandings.  It’s good fun, and worth a listen.