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Amazing World of Radio

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AWR0195: The Player: Mirage

June 15, 2022 06:01 - 5 MB

Two men journey through a jungle notorious for its mirages in order to stake their claim to a mine. Original AIr Date: 1948 Go to

AWR0194: Nightcap Yarns: Two Hundred Dollars

June 08, 2022 06:01 - 5 MB

A gangster’s plan for a $500,000 bank robbery is complicated by a young man who unexpectedly tries to stop the robbery and is killed. Original Air Read more ...

AWR0193: Studio X: Frozen Justice

June 01, 2022 06:01 - 5 MB

In order to protect his daughter’s happiness, a little man challenges the town bully to a rifle duel. Original Air Date: 1948 Go to

AWR0192: Top Secret: A Plan for Sabotage

May 25, 2022 06:01 - 5 MB

A doctor contacts Karin and asks for a meeting, as he may have to a clue to an infamous Soviet Agent she’s pledged to end. Original Air Date: Octo Read more ...

AWR0191: Radio Reader’s Digest: The Man Who Conquered Devil’s Island

April 17, 2022 06:01 - 5 MB

The story of a Salvation Army worker’s fight against the inhumane conditions at Devil’s Island. Original Air Date: April 3, 1947 Go t Read more ...

AWR0190: Wormwood Forest

April 16, 2022 06:01 - 5 MB

Gorgeous Frog learns who his opponent is for his wrestling match…the Easter Bunny. Original Air Date: April 16, 1949 Go to

AWR0189: The Whistler: Little Red Book

March 30, 2022 06:01 - 5 MB

A man follows an attractive girl into Panama off a ship and sees her stab someone in an alley before returning to the ship. Original Air Date: August 25 Read more ...

AWR0188: The Whistler: Cliffs of Wayrum

March 23, 2022 06:01 - 5 MB

A young heir witnesses his guardian pushing a man off a cliff and thinks he can use it as leverage to gain control of his estate. However, when he confronts hi Read more ...

AWR0187: The Whistler: Search for an Unknown

March 16, 2022 06:01 - 5 MB

A gangster’s life is threatened along with two people he’s never heard of. He hires a private eye to find out what the connection is between him an Read more ...

AWR0186: The Whistler: A Matter of Odds

March 09, 2022 06:01 - 25 minutes - 11.9 MB

A man who lives according to the odds robs a sailor of his lottery winnings and returns home to the States. Original Air Date: March 17, 1955 Go Read more ...

AWR0185: The Whistler: Landslide

March 02, 2022 06:01 - 5 MB

A man who was arrested for accidentally killing a beloved local man goes on the run. Original Air Date: September 12, 1954 Go to

AWR0184: The Whistler: Out of The Past

February 23, 2022 06:01 - 31 minutes - 14.6 MB

An architect who murdered his aunt for her money and gets a developed picture from the drug store that indicates someone knows about it. Original Air Da Read more ...

AWR0183: Abe Lincoln

February 11, 2022 06:01 - 57 minutes - 26.6 MB

Oscar Brand hosts and examines the songs sung about Abraham Lincoln and the songs he sang. Original Air Date: April 4, 1961 Go to

AWR0182: Advice to the Lovelorn (Betty White Special)

January 16, 2022 06:01 - 34 minutes - 15.9 MB

Fibber McGee and Molly help out a young medical secretary (Betty White) who broke up with her boyfriend. Molly just wants to be a friend, but Fibber is determi Read more ...

AWR0181: Greatest Story Ever Told: No Room at the Inn

December 24, 2021 06:01 - 5 MB

A retelling of the Nativity story. Original Air Date: December 21, 1947 Go to http://amazing.greatd Read more ...

AWR0180: Christmas Sing with Bing 1955

December 23, 2021 06:01 - 5 MB

Bing Crosby hosts a program of Christmas music featuring performances from across America and around the World. Original Air Date: December 24, 1955 Read more ...

AWR0179: The Whistler: Three Wise Guys

December 22, 2021 06:01 - 5 MB

On Christmas Eve, three shady characters drive to a barn in a small Pennsylvania town to recover a payroll that one of them had stolen, only to find a pregnant Read more ...

AWR0178: The Passing Parade: Emily Bissell Launches the Christmas Seals Program

December 19, 2021 06:01 - 5 MB

John Nesbitt tells the story of how a social worker founded the Christmas seals in a quest to save a sanitarium for the care of people with tuberculosis. < Read more ...

AWR0177: Stars Over Hollywood: Home’s Not a Place

December 01, 2021 06:01 - 5 MB

A fourteen-year-old boy (Dean Stockwell) creates imaginary parents after his old friend in the orphanage is adopted. Go to

AWR0176: Jimmy Durante and Garry Moore Show: Thanksgiving Pilgrim

November 24, 2021 06:01 - 34 minutes - 16 MB

A half hour of fun with Durante and Moore including their Thanksgiving “opera” about the Courtship of Miles Standish. Original Air Date: Nov Read more ...

AWR0175: The Eternal Light: A Man is Not a Thing (Ed Asner Tribute)

September 22, 2021 06:01 - 37 minutes - 17.5 MB

Two American G.I.’s in Casablanca meet a young Moroccan Jew and encourage his dream of going to Jerusalem. Features Ed Asner. Original AIr Date: A Read more ...

AWR0175: The Eternal Light: A Man is Not a Thing (Ed Anser Tribute)

September 22, 2021 06:01 - 5 MB

Two American G.I.’s in Casablanca meet a young Moroccan Jew and encourage his dream of going to Jerusalem. Features Ed Asner. Origi Read more ...

AWR0174: Voice of the Army: Operation Citizenship

September 17, 2021 00:01 - 22 minutes - 10.2 MB

The story of the effort to swear in immigrants serving in the U.S. Army during World War II. Original Air Date: 1949 Go to

AWR0173: Mercury Summer Theatre of the Air: The Hitchhiker

September 08, 2021 06:01 - 5 MB

A young man travelling across country keeps seeing the same hitchhiker over and over again. Original Air Date: June 21, 1946 Go to

AWR0172: The Mercury Summer Theatre of the Air: The Apple Tree

September 01, 2021 06:01 - 5 MB

A middle aged man returns to the site of a doomed Summer romance from his youth. Original Air Date; September 6, 1946 Go to

AWR0171: Frances Langford Show: Church Social

August 25, 2021 06:01 - 5 MB

Frances cooks for the church social auction while the men of the cast connive to outdo each other to get lunch with Frances. Original Air Date:August 14 Read more ...

AWR0170: The Frances Langford Show: Going to a Baseball Game

August 18, 2021 06:01 - 32 minutes - 14.9 MB

Frances is taken to a baseball game by her guyfriend. Original Air Date: June 5, 1947 Go to http:// Read more ...

AWR0169: Wanted: The Case of Kenneth “Two-Gun” Wagner

August 11, 2021 06:01 - 5 MB

The story of the FBI’s pursuit of a convicted killer who had become a Southern folk legend. Original Air Date: August 11, 1950 Go to

AWR0168: Adventures of Topper: Topper Observed by Two Psychiatrists

August 04, 2021 06:01 - 33 minutes - 15.5 MB

After Topper’s lady friend asks him to confide in her, he informs her that’s he’s been seeing two mischievous ghosts. She responds by calling Read more ...

AWR0167: Shakespeare Cycle: Julius Caesar

July 28, 2021 06:01 - 5 MB

The classic story of the plot against Julius Caesar. Original Air Date: July 26, 1937 Go to http:// Read more ...

AWR0166: Somebody Knows: Unsolved Murder of Elizabeth Short (the Black Dahlia)

July 21, 2021 12:01 - 5 MB

A true-crime radio program lays out the facts in the murder of Elizabeth Short in Los Angeles and offers a $5,000 reward for her murderer’s capture. Read more ...

AWR0165: Four Star Playhouse: The Incredible Anna Lee

July 14, 2021 06:01 - 35 minutes - 16.4 MB

A woman (Rosalind Russell) with a big personality but no talent gets a shot at making it big in Hollywood. Her publicity agent (Frank Lovejoy) begins to fall f Read more ...

AWR0164: General Electric Theater: Enchanted Cottage

July 07, 2021 06:01 - 5 MB

A disfigured woman has isolated herself in a cottage that served as a wealthy family’s honeymoon location for decades. Original Air Date: Septembe Read more ...

AWR0163: Confession: The Martin Everett Case

June 30, 2021 06:01 - 5 MB

The confession by a young college student of how he was drawn into a crime by another man who looks similar to him and has the same birthdate. Original Read more ...

AWR0162: Johnson Wax Program: First Song: Manhattan Beach

June 23, 2021 06:01 - 33 minutes - 15.6 MB

Meredith Willson presents a lost composition inspired by a songbird and John Nesbitt tells the story of the writing of Mein Kampf. Original Air Date: Se Read more ...

AWR0161: The Johnson Wax Program: “First Song: The Free Lance.”

June 16, 2021 06:01 - 5 MB

Meredith Willson plays a lost song and plays folk songs of the future. John Nesbitt tells the story of a persistent newspaper in World War1 Belgium. Read more ...

AWR0160: Men at Sea: The Bid Has Four Hearts

June 09, 2021 06:01 - 5 MB

The story of four heroic chaplains aboard a doomed ship. Original Air Date: August 19, 1945 Go to h Read more ...

AWR0159: Granby’s Green Acres: The Audition Show

June 02, 2021 06:01 - 41 minutes - 18.9 MB

A banker decides to give up his job and move his wife and daughter to a rundown farm. Audition Date: March 30, 1950 Go to

AWR0158: Music and the Muse: Day of Resurrection

April 04, 2021 06:01 - 5 MB

A half hour Easter program of poems read by Janet Logan mixed with classical music. Original Air Date: April 17, 1949 Go to

AWR0157: Life of Riley: Best Dressed Man

April 03, 2021 06:05 - 5 MB

Riley’s Uncle Baxter wants Riley to buy him a new best suit so he can be recognized as the best dressed man on Easter. Original Air Date: April 9, 19 Read more ...

AWR0156: Lux Radio Theater: Alice in Wonderland (Rehearsal)

March 17, 2021 06:01 - 5 MB

The rehearsal for the Lux Radio theater adaptation of the Disney classic including many members from the original cast including Kathryn Beaumont (Alice), Ed Wynn Read more ...

AWR0155: Columbia Workshop: Alice’s Adventures Through the Looking Glass, Part Two

March 10, 2021 06:01 - 5 MB

Alice continues her journey across the chess board in hopes of becoming a queen. Original Air Date: Decemebr 30, 1937 Go to

AWR0154: Columbia Workshop: Alice’s Adventures Through the Looking Glass, Part One

March 03, 2021 06:01 - 5 MB

Alice journeys into the looking glass and finds herself travelling across a chess board. Original Air Date: December 23, 1937 Go to

AWR0153: Columbia Workshop: Alice in Wonderland, Part Two

February 24, 2021 06:01 - 5 MB

Alice goes to a tea party at the house of the March Hare. Original Air Date: October 3, 1937 Go to htt Read more ...

AWR0152: Columbia Workshop: Alice in Wonderland, Part One

February 17, 2021 06:01 - 33 minutes - 15.6 MB

Alice follows a White rabbit into the bizarre world of Wonderland. Original Air Date: September 26, 1937 Go to

AWR0151: Lux Radio Theater: Cavalcade

December 31, 2020 07:01 - 1 hour - 31.2 MB

Noel Coward’s classic play about the life of the British Marryot family in the three decades after the turn of the century. Original Air Date: Decem Read more ...

AWR0150: Elgin’s Christmas Day Greeting to America

December 20, 2020 06:01 - 2 hours - 57.3 MB

Elgin’s fourth annaul Christmas Special. Hosted by Don Ameche, featuring Bob Hope, Bob Crosby, Ginny Simms, Jack Benny, Red Skelton, and more. Origi Read more ...

AWR0149: Heartbeat Theater: John Balls’ Thanksgiving

November 25, 2020 06:01 - 33 minutes - 15.5 MB

An indigent worker meets a young man who’s run away from home the day before Thanksgiving. Original Air Date: November 24, 1963 Go to

AWR0148: Columbia Presents Corwin: The Lonesome Train (Raymond Massey’s Lincoln)

October 14, 2020 06:01 - 5 MB

A “folk-contata” capturing the national reaction to the assassination of President Lincoln. Original Air Date: March 21, 1944 Go to

AWR0147: Cavalcade of America: Keepsakes (Raymond Massey’s Lincoln)

October 11, 2020 06:01 - 5 MB

An examination of little known incidents in the Life of Lincoln through artifacts in the massive Lincoln collection of Oliver R. Barrett. Original Air Dat Read more ...

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