Irving Brecher, Creator of Life of Riley, on NPR

(Repost with edits from August 16, 2011 over at my OldTimeRadioDiner blog, no longer active. I started that back when I thought I could keep two going at the same time.)

Hank Rosenfeld talks about his collaboration with Irving Brecher on NPR's The Story. Irving Brecher was (news to me) the creator of The Life of Riley, "on radio, in the movies, and as the very first television sitcom."[1]

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Listen to Hank Rosenfeld with Irving Brecher >
Life of Riley Radio Show on Archive.org >
Life of Riley TV Show on Archive.org >

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The Wicked Wit of the West: The Last Great Golden Age Screenwriter Shares the Hilarity and Heartaches of Working With Groucho, Garland, Gleason, Burns, Berle, Benny, and many more

[2013-06-27: This is not the original full interview with Brecher; this is much shorter, but the original seems to be unavailable right now.]

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There was a story on NPR today about declining birth rates. Problem: Fewer people are entering the world to pay for the bills of an aging populace and an increasing number of retirees.

I see the same problem in business: Every sales year must improve or you are failing.

The underlying problem in both these scenarios is they rely on growth to solve all the problems, and that is not sustainable.

[2012-12-07]

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