As we continually add more to the site, you can find the most recent items here. The campaign to restore saturday night theatre to the bbc radio 4 schedules. Also featuring indepth old time radio related news and editorials, top 10 charts, quizzes and competitions, playlist creation of your favorite shows, radio stations for nonstop play, and lots more. Download some old time radio shows today and enjoy the wonderful world of radio from half a century ago. Stories of sherlock holmes springbok strange as it seems. Free old time radio shows from the golden age of radio. The lives of harry lime the lives of harry lime original british title the adventures of harry lime was an oldtime radio program produced in london, england during the 1951 to 1952. Created by himan brown who had by then become a radio legend due to his work on inner sanctum mysteries and other shows dating back to the 1930s, and aired on affiliate stations across the cbs radio.
Old time radio drama brings the best of 1930s, 40s, and 50s entertainment to wisconsin. Saturday night theatre audio book librivox audio books. I have listened to thousands of hours and hours of most of the otr radio shows on. Here you can listen, download, view otr links and more all free. Before television, radio provided entertainment by presenting radio plays and programs of mystery, intrigue, and comedy. In addition to traditional radio broadcasters, modern radio drama also known as audio theater, or audio drama, has experienced a revival, with a growing number of independent producers who are able to. Saturday night theatre was a longrunning radio drama strand on bbc radio 4. Now listeners have the opportunity to hear all of the shows played on old time radio theater. In 1974 longtime radio producer himan brown convinced cbs to greenlight a new anthology of radio dramas, cbs radio mystery theater cbsrmt. The radio theater channel is an old time radio streaming web radio station. Monday candy matson, yukon28209 the eric spaulding concert original broadcast date. The strand showcased featurelength, middlebrow single plays on saturday. The plays featured in the strand included stage plays, book adaptations and original dramatisations. Over 35,000 of the most popular and the most obscure.
Cbs radio mystery theater was meant to appeal to an audience that remembered when old time radio drama was a popular form of family entertainment. I grew up in the 70s and 80s listening to bbc radio drama, and saturday night theatre was the pinnacle of radio drama. Features a large archive of the most popular old time radio mp3 downloads from the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and more. Join joe riddle sunday evening 6p 9p central time as we turn back the radio dial to when radio was young. Their generosity allows us to broadcast straight to you each and every week. And listen for great modern radio drama online everyday. Free downloads of otr programs while this library was created primarily with the members of the old time radio researchers group in mind, anyone may download from here for free. Rusc old time radio download over 35,000 otr shows. Mar 28, 2020 frank skinner in fabulous form and more riveting radio shows 1. The strand showcased featurelength, middlebrow single plays on saturday evenings for more than 50 years, having been launched in april 1943.
The cbs radio mystery theater or cbsrmt was an ambitious and sustained attempt in the 1970s to revive the great drama of oldtime radio. Saturdaynight theatre bbc radio 4 fm, 14 january 1978 20. These are the last fills ill be posting for snt and remember ill be taking it out of the library archive sunday. The radio detectives bbc 000314 303 the innocence of father brown.
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It ran from october 14, 1934 until june 7, 1955, then continued on television as lux video theatre until 1957. It was a western adventure oldtime radio drama that premiered on july 8, 1950, on the us nbc radio network and remained on the air through september 14, 1952. Part of our over 12,000 show library of old time radio. The jewel in the crown was undoubtedly saturday night theatre. Inner sanctum old time radio show 2 hours otr theatre. Here you will find some of the most popular radio programs of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. Sounds of darkness sa the sound of war wwii speaking of liberty. Free old time radio shows from the golden age of radio otr. Joe riddles old time radio show on am 970 kcfo home. For the weekly printable schedule, including episode details, click here. Woodsongs oldtime radio hour is an all volunteer live audience celebration of grassroots music and the artists who make it. The program can be heard saturday and sundays nights from 8 p. In all, some 926 episodes were broadcast, providing a record of the most important entertainment events in american.
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The lux radio theatre began in 1934 featuring dramas from broadway, but there was not enough material to support the show. Tucsons beowulf alley theatre presents some of the finest radio shows of the 30s, 40s and 50s. Broadcasting from the heart of germantown, on wpnm radio, and over the shoutcast network, host bob camardella mixes his vast collection of entertainment, with news and events from the ole neighborhood reunion groups of germantown, phila. The show airs on 537 radio stations from australia to dublin, ireland, on american forces radio network twice each weekend in 177 nations, every military base and us naval ship in the world, coasttocoast in millions of tv homes as a public tv series. We stream scheduled old time radio shows and classic radio drama. Old time radio comedy listen via stitcher for podcasts. The radio detectives bbc 000328 305 stand by for west. Use the pulldown to find a radio spirits broadcast affiliate in your area. Stream live events, live playbyplay nfl, mlb, nba, nhl, college football, ncaa basketball, and premier league matches. Play by joseph tomelty about the quinn family who run a fishing business. Boxcars711 old time radio pod offers the best of old time radio, oldies, easy listening and talk. Listen to free internet radio, sports, music, news, talk and podcasts.
Hollywood360 radio hollywood at the touch of a button. We make available thousands of public domain, old time radio shows for your listening enjoyment. At the present time we have over 20,000 episodes of downloadable material available to you, for free. We dont believe that you should be charged for listening so download as many as youd like and enjoy. All of the glory and grandeur of a broadway premier brought to your radio on first nighter, starring radios first sex symbol, don ameche. February 7, 1950 alan young show buying stock original broadcast date. I managed to get about 600 plays in this series abotu 10. There are some excellent plays here, and there are hundreds more availabe online if you look for them.
The lux radio theatre was one of radios most popular series attracting hollywoods top stars and boasting a lavish budget. The listener is taken to the little theater off times square to be part of the opening night performance of drama and comedy. Finalrune productions is proud to offer all most of our fieldrecorded radio drama stories as free mp3 downloads. Select state alabama alaska arizona arkansas california colorado conn. We offer 3 different ways for you to listen to our old time radio shows so that no matter what device you are using pc, laptop, android phone, iphone, ipad, kindle, tablet, etc. We hosted author barry schneier as he took us through the stories and photos in his book bruce springsteen.
Golden age of radio free old time radio mp3 downloads. There are also over 5,000 episodes in our online archive. Lux radio theatre was indisputably the biggest, most important, most expensive drama anthology program on radio. A 90 minute prime time slot featuring all genres of dramatisations and well known plays, as. The podcast is comprised mostly from selected old time radio shows that are the highest quality i can find and the favorite episodes of many old time radio fans.
Listen to old time radio comedy episodes free, on demand. The old time radio network comedy, continuing americas love affair with comedy and those lovable characters that made us laugh. Host norman gilliland explores some of the best comedy, drama, adventure, mystery, and science fiction of the 20th century. The radio detectives bbc 000321 304 tthe genius of gideon fell. Content here is intended for noncommercial personal use only. Laugh along with amos n andy, enjoy life with luigi, or have some edge of the seat thrills with dragnet, box or i love a mystery. A website dedicated to the long running series of plays under the saturday night theatre strand. Hollywood 360 airs every saturday night, coasttocoast, from 8 pm until midnight central standard time some stations air hollywood 360 at this time and others air it at a different time. This recording is part of the old time radio collection. In this new normal of virtual gatherings, we had a great time saturday engaged with backstreets readers on instagram live.
Radio drama had been declared dead twelve years before. Amari also broadcasts oldtime radio shows on the wgn radio theatre heard every saturday night beginning at 10 pm on 720wgn in chicago. Saturday night theatre online using any of the 3 radio players below. Largest and most complete listing of old radio programs on the web. Right up to the end of the 1980s the radio 4 schedules was packed full of plays and series and special seasons.