For yet another Wednesday afternoon, The AIR brings you new episodes of Curtain Call and Beatles Blast.  You can tune in at the website, or just stay right here and  listen to the convenient embedded radio player lurking elsewhere on this page.

At 2 PM (EDT) Beatles Blast brings you the Beatles album that isn’t really a Beatles album.

The Beatles Story is a two-record “documentary” album that Capitol Records rushed out in November, 1964 for two reasons:  First of all VeeJay Records had rushed out a collection of radio interviews with the Fab Four as “Songs, Pictures and Stories of The Beatles” and Capitol wanted to knock it off the charts with a more “official” release; Secondly, it gave Capitol a fresh two-record set to have in stores for the Christmas gift-giving season,  best yet, this album cost hardly anything to put together.

This record was out of print for decades (in part because it only has 49 seconds of previously-unreleased music on it), but it was finally re-released as part of a deluxe box set last year. You can hear the whole thing, plus an edited episode of The BBC’s “Pop Goes The Beatles” today on Beatles Blast.  That is the “story” part of our headline.

Beatles Blast can be heard every Wednesday at 2 PM, with replays Thursday at 11 PM, Friday at 1 PM,  and Saturday afternoon.

At 3 PM (EDT) on Curtain Call, Mel Larch salutes this year’s Tony Winner for Best Musical, Maybe Happy Ending.

Maybe Happy Ending is a South Korean Musical that’s basically about robots in love. With lyrics written by Hue Park, music composed by Will Aronson, and the book written by both, this brisk musical follows two life-like helper bots who find each other and, against all odds and common sense, apparently fall in some kind of love.

You’ll hear highlights of this delightfully unusual show on this week’s Curtain Call. 

Curtain Call can be heard on The AIR Wednesday at 3 PM, with replays Thursday at 8 AM, Friday at 10 AM, Saturday at 8 PM and Monday at 9 AM. A six-hour marathon of classic episodes can be heard Sunday evening starting at 6 PM, and an all-night marathon of Curtain Call episodes can be heard Wednesday nights, beginning at Midnight.

Also on The AIR, Wednesday at 11 PM,  The Comedy Vault brings you an hour of classic satirical songs from Tom Lehrer, who passed away last weekend at the age of 97. You can expect a more fitting tribute to the man in the coming weeks.