Podcasts may be taking over for terrestrial radio as the world’s preferred form of audio entertainment, but that’s not stopping us from taking a look at the life and untimely death of a rising radio star, and the play and movie(s) it inspired.

Alan Berg had a talent for making great radio. Unapologetic for his politics and Jewish faith, Berg battled and belittled callers up until his untimely assassination in 1984. Berg’s killers were a group of white supremacists who had banded together to strike out against Jewish Americans, and we explore their horrific actions as well.

But first, we take a look at Talk Radio, the 1988 Oliver Stone film written by and starring Eric Bogosian not-so-loosely based on Berg’s life and death.

Elsewhere on the show, This Week In Murder explores another cold case solved and an ambush on a man recently released from jail, and it’s hunting season in an outdoorsy edition of Who Died The Worst!

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