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A blog and podcast featuring vintage old time radio broadcasts directly transferred from original transcriptions with a focus on rare, seldom heard series and programs.
Tags: great depression, history, otr, radio, radio comedy, radio drama, world war ii
Author: Randy Riddle
More from Author: The site also includes notes about each program and some of the history behind the shows. The site is updated each Friday.

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World Program Service - Disc 425

Dec 20, 2009
Here’s another in a series of obscure Christmas-themed radio dramas, sold to individual radio stations as part of a station library package by World Program Service in the 1940s.  Blog listener Micheal Utz donated this set of discs to my...

Voice of the Army - Pgm 269

Dec 20, 2009
Many transcriptions in my collection were created for the War effort to entertain the troops or inform the public at home about the good cause.  This one’s a bit unusual, since it looks at some of the major changes that would happen when the War would...

Your Movietown Radio Theatre - Pgm 24

Dec 20, 2009
Let’s return to “Your Movietown Radio Theatre”, a seldom heard series syndicated by Frederick W. Ziv circa 1947-1948. Program 24 is, I think, a previously uncirculated episode, “The Sound of Her Voice”, a charming, dark little comedy about a man who...

American Family Robinson - Pgm 52

Dec 20, 2009
We continue our run through several episodes of the rare mid-1930s serial, “American Family Robinson”, syndicated to over 300 stations by the National Association of Manufacturer’s under the pseudonym “The National Industrial Council”.  As I mentioned...

The Grantland Rice Story - Pgm GRS-11

Dec 20, 2009
Jimmy Powers is back again this week with another entry in the series “The Grantland Rice Story”, syndicated for 52 episodes in the mid-1950s by Thesaurus and based on the autobiography of the famous sportswriter.  We’re working our way through the...




sean m.
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excellent
  Seriously great stuff for the OTR enthusiast: rare recordings (some considered lost for decades) and odd trips down radio's memory lane. I dont know where he finds this stuff, but it's great.
Posted 1/19/09 7:01 PM