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Hunting of the Snark 1
Airdate: Tuesday - January 29, 1963

WOR Show
Original Airing

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First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

Oh, what you are missing by having this paper strike. . .

Show Description

Shep spends the whole show reading "The Hunting of the Snark" by Lewis Carroll. At the end he says that this should be required reading by all the under-graduates, twice a year, along with the Army general orders. He compares Carroll's 'nonsense' to Herman Woulk's 'sense'

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• Special thanks to David Director for providing this show and David Singer for originally recording it and preserving it over these years.

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Related Plots / Story Lines and Other References Used

Time	Category	Date	Title	Comments
•	General Topics		The Hunting of the Snark
•	General Topics		Snark Hunting

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Airdate History ' - Original' date is earliest known broadcast)

	Date	Title
	January 29, 1963 Recno: 3413	Hunting of the Snark 1	Original Airing

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Dustbin of History	January 29, 2026

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