🎧 Delia Bennett

Hear “Delia Bennett” from Joe Palooka, a collection of classic radio adventure and comedy presented by Heritage Radio Vault.

Joe Palooka brings a gentle personality into a hard-hitting profession. The boxer’s successes and misunderstandings create opportunities for both adventure and humour, with his manager’s sharper manner providing a useful contrast outside the ring.

📻 About the programme
CBS adapted Ham Fisher’s comic-strip character for radio in 1932. Teddy Bergman, later known as Alan Reed, played Joe, with Frank Readick among the performers associated with manager Knobby Walsh. Heinz sponsored the short broadcasts, and Georgia Backus adapted the material. The programme turned a visually familiar newspaper hero into a character listeners could recognise through dialogue, comic timing and narrated sporting action.

📚 Recording notes
Catalogue broadcast date: 3 May 1932.
Presented as a surviving historical recording. Original audio quality varies.

🎙️ Related listening
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell, The Grantland Rice Story, Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy.

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✉️ Recording information and enquiries: markwilliams@heritageradiovault.com