Amazing World of Radio
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AWR0146: Cavalcade of America: The Thinking Heart (Raymond Massey’s Lincoln)
October 07, 2020 06:01 - 5 MBA look at Abraham Lincoln’s life through poetry and prose written about him. Original Air Date: February 7, 1950 Go to
AWR0145: Cavalcade of America: With Malice Towards None (Raymond Massey’s Lincoln)
October 04, 2020 06:01 - 5 MBIn the waning days of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln tries to negotiate a peaceful end to the war despite calls for vengeance. Original Air Date: Read more ...
AWR0144: The Eternal Light: The Man Who Knew Lincoln (Raymond Massey’s Lincoln)
September 30, 2020 06:01 - 5 MBThe story of a Jewish immigrant who began a career as a telegraph operator, met Abraham Lincoln, and telegraphed the Emancipation Proclamation to the Country in 1 Read more ...
AWR0143: Cavalcade of America: Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (Raymond Massey’s Lincoln)
September 27, 2020 06:01 - 5 MBAn overview of Abraham Lincoln’s Presidency and leadership through the Civil War. Original Air Date: February 13, 1940 Go to
AWR0142: Radio Reader’s Digest: The Counsel Assigned (Raymond Massey’s Lincoln)
September 23, 2020 18:01 - 5 MBAbraham Lincoln risks his political career to defend a fifteen-year-old boy who faces the death penalty. Original Air Date: February 13, 1947 Go to < Read more ...
AWR0141: Cavalcade of America: A Duel with Aunt Rebecca (Raymond Massey’s LIncoln)
September 20, 2020 06:01 - 5 MBThe State Auditor is ready to fight a duel with State Representative Abraham Lincoln over some anonymously published letter, the auditor believes Lincoln wrote.
AWR0140: Cavalcade of America: Prologue to Glory (Raymond Massey’s Linoln)
September 16, 2020 06:01 - 5 MBA year in the life of young Abe Lincoln as he moves to town, gets a job in a store, runs for the legislature, and falls in love. Original Ai Read more ...
AWR0140: Cavalcade of America: Prologue to Glory (Raymond Massey’s Lincoln)
September 16, 2020 06:01 - 34 minutes - 16.1 MBA year in the life of young Abe Lincoln as he moves to town, gets a job in a store, runs for the legislature, and falls in love. Original Air Date: Februa Read more ...
AWR0139: Lux Radio Theater: The Heiress (Olivia De Havilland Tribute)
September 13, 2020 06:01 - 5 MBA wealthy but plain young woman (Olivia De Havilland) falls in love, but her overbearing father suspects the young man is a fortune hunter. Original Air Da Read more ...
AWR0138: Lux Radio Theater: Vigil in the Night (Olivia De Havilland Tribute)
September 11, 2020 06:01 - 1 hour - 28.5 MBA nurse (Olivia De Havilland) takes the blame for her sister’s mistake that led to a patient’s death and finds herself working in a poorly funded hosp Read more ...
AWR0137: Screen Guild Theater: Strawberry Blonde (Olivia De Havilland Tribute)
September 09, 2020 06:01 - 5 MBA mild-mannered dentist prepares to gain revenge by killing an ex-friend politician who ruined his life and stole the girl he wanted. Original Air Date: O Read more ...
AWR0136: Lux Radio Theater: The Scarlet Pimpernel (Olivia De Havilland Tribute)
September 07, 2020 06:01 - 1 hour - 28.4 MBThe wife (Olivia De Havilland) of a foppish English nobleman (Leslie Howard) is blackmailed to help the revolutionary government of France apprehend their arch- Read more ...
AWR0135: Lux Radio Theater: Suspicion (Olivia De Havilland Tribute)
September 04, 2020 06:01 - 5 MBA woman (Olivia De Haviland) comes to suspect that her husband (William Powell) is a murderer. Original Air Date: September 18, 1944 Go to
AWR0134: Suspense: Voyage Through Darkness (Olivia De Havilland Tribute)
September 02, 2020 06:18 - 5 MBA nurse to a deceased elderly woman escorting her body to be buried at sea runs into a mysterious man who she falls in love with…even though she suspects Read more ...
AWR0133: Lux Radio Theater: Captain Blood (Olivia De Havilland Tribute)
August 31, 2020 06:01 - 5 MBThe story of Dr. Peter Blood (Errol Flynn) who turned outlaw, slave, and then pirate and the governor’s daughter (Olivia De Havilland) who bought him.
AWR0132: Top Secret: The Dream that Meant Death
August 26, 2020 06:01 - 32 minutes - 15.1 MBKerin travels to Shanghai to thwart a thought by the Communists to sabotage Chinese nationalists using opium. Original Air Date: October 19, 1950 G Read more ...
AWR0131: Top Secret: The Document
August 19, 2020 06:01 - 34 minutes - 16.1 MBAn important oil document containing information on U.S. relations with Iran is stolen. Kerin suspects the company president’s son. Original Air Dat Read more ...
AWR0130: Top Secret: The Poisoned Hand of Friendship
August 12, 2020 18:01 - 31 minutes - 14.8 MBKerin goes to San Francisco to pursue one of the other side’s most dangerous agents who may have his sights sent on U.S. relief supplies to Indo-china.
AWR0129: Top Secret: Confession
August 05, 2020 06:01 - 30 minutes - 14 MBKerin travels to Bulgaria to rescue the husband of a friend from the Communist Government of Bulgaria, who have brainwashed him. Original Air Date: Septem Read more ...
AWR0128: Top Secret: Church Without a Cross
July 29, 2020 06:01 - 30 minutes - 14.3 MBKarin goes to Belgium to find the source of devastating bombs being dropped on London. Original Air Date: August 20, 1950 Go to
AWR0127: Top Secret: The Case of the Tattooed Pigeon
July 22, 2020 06:01 - 34 minutes - 16.2 MBKarin investigates the source of a leak that’s going from London directly to Germany. Original Air Date: August 13, 1950 Go to
AWR0126: Top Secret: Disaster in London
July 15, 2020 06:01 - 34 minutes - 15.8 MBNazi agents plot to spread a highly infectious disease into the London water supply. Original Air Date: August 6, 1950 Go to
AWR0125: Top Secret: Story of the Unknown Mission
July 08, 2020 06:01 - 33 minutes - 15.6 MBKerin is ordered to kill a French Count who’s a Nazi Agent. But she refuses to act until she knows what his assignment is. Unknown to her, his assignment i Read more ...
AWR0124: Top Secret: Midnight for Danger
July 01, 2020 06:01 - 32 minutes - 15.1 MBKerin travels to neutral Switzerland and she has to find out what the Germans are planning with Operation Dusk. Original Air Date: July 23, 1950 Go Read more ...
AWR0123: Top Secret: The Coming Disaster (Rehearsal)
June 24, 2020 06:01 - 27 minutes - 12.6 MBA German employee of the Italian government is murdered after promising to sell Karin information that could bring down the Italian government. Rehearsal Read more ...
AWR0122: Top Secret: Escape!
June 17, 2020 06:01Karin has to smuggle an RAF fighter out of Germany. Original Air Date: July 3, 1950 Go to http://amazi Read more ...
AWR0121: Top Secret: A Package to Tangiers
June 10, 2020 19:01 - 31 minutes - 14.7 MBKarin goes to Tangiers on a mission for Hiter’s right hand man while also trying to ferrett out the leak with the allied spy network. Original Air D Read more ...
AWR0120: Top Secret: The Admiral’s Strange Identity
June 03, 2020 06:01 - 33 minutes - 15.3 MBThe Baroness substitutes herself for a Nazi Agent and finds herself smuggling a Nazi Admiral out of New York…in a coffin. Original Air Date:June 19, Read more ...
AWR0119: Top Secret: Night Train to Berlin
May 27, 2020 18:09 - 34 minutes - 15.8 MBBaroness Karin Geza has to intercept a Gestapo Agent carrying a weapon that could turn the course of the War aboard a train to Berlin. Original Air Date: Read more ...
AWR0118: Abbott and Costello Show: Costello Invited to Join the Yankees (Old Time Radio Baseball)
May 20, 2020 06:01 - 29 minutes - 13.6 MBBecause Joe DiMaggio is sick, the Yankees call for Lou Costello. Original Air Date: April 17, 1947 Go to
AWR0118: Abbott and Costello Show: Costello Invited to Join the Yankees
May 20, 2020 06:01Because Joe DiMaggio is sick, the Yankees call for Lou Costello. Go to http://amazing.greatdetectives.net
AWR0117: Dick Cole: The Big Baseball Game (Old Time Radio Baseball)
May 13, 2020 07:01 - 35 minutes - 16.2 MBAn ambitious young pitcher is ready to cheat in a game against Dick Cole and the Parr Academy team so that he looks good for a Major League scout in the stands.< Read more ...
AWR0117: Dick Cole: The Big Baseball Game
May 13, 2020 07:01An ambitious young pitcher is ready to cheat in a game against Dick Cole and the Parr Academy team so that he looks good for a Major League scout in the stands.
AWR0116: Destination Freedom: The Ballad of Satchel Paige (Old Time Radio Baseball)
May 06, 2020 07:01 - 38 minutes - 17.8 MBThe story of Negro League legend Leroy “Satchel” Paige. Original Air Date: May 15, 1949 Go to
AWR0115: X Minus One: Martian Sam (Old Time Radio Baseball)
April 29, 2020 07:01 - 31 minutes - 14.5 MBThe struggling Los Angeles Dodgers sign an eighteen inch tall Martian pitcher to turn around their fortunes. Original Air Date: April 3, 1957 Go to Read more ...
AWR0114: Lux Radio Theater: Pride of the Yankees (Old Time Radio Baseball)
April 22, 2020 18:01 - 1 hour - 29.2 MBThe story of the life and career of baseball legend Lou Gehrig (Gary Cooper) Original Air Date: October 4, 1943 Go to
AWR0113: Inheritance: But for the Courage of a Woman (Julie Bennett Tribute)
April 19, 2020 06:01 - 36 minutes - 16.7 MBIn 1774, a young woman risks her life to get a message from her brother’s forces to another group of rebels across British lines. Original Air Data: Read more ...
AWR0112: Lux Radio Theater: Alibi Ike (Old Time Radio Baseball)
April 15, 2020 06:01 - 1 hour - 32.4 MBA man with a rare talent for baseball makes it in the big leagues, but also has a rare talent for making up excuses. Original Air Date: April 19, 1937 Read more ...
AWR0111: The Great Gildersleeve: Easter Sunrise Service (Easter Old Time Radio)
April 12, 2020 06:01 - 35 minutes - 16.3 MBMarjorie and Leroy want to go to the Easter Sunrise service and persuade Gildersleeve to go with them. Original Air Date: April 9, 1952 Go to
AWR0110: Request Performance (Easter Old Time Radio)
April 11, 2020 06:01 - 38 minutes - 17.8 MBDick Powell hosts a variety featuring Abbott and Costello and an Easter sketch starring George Raft. Original Air Date: April 21, 1946 Go to
AWR0109: CBS Radio Workshop: Son of Man (Easter Old Time Radio)
April 10, 2020 18:01 - 30 minutes - 13.9 MBA Passion Play produced by Herbert Marshall featuring the voices of Marshall, Robert Young, Victory Jory, and Vincent Price as well as the music of Bach. Read more ...
AWR0108: Doris Day Show with Guest Kirk Douglas (Kirk Douglas Celebration)
April 09, 2020 06:01 - 5 MBKirk Douglas makes a guest appearance on the Doris Day Show. Original Air Date: November 25, 1952 Go to
AWR0107: Screen Director’s Playhouse: Champion (Kirk Douglas Celebration)
April 08, 2020 06:01 - 39 minutes - 18.2 MBThe story of a young boxer’s (Kirk Douglas) rise from obscurity to becoming a boxing champion. Original Air Date: March 17, 1950 Go to
AWR0106: Academy Award Theater: Stranger in My House (Kirk Douglas Celebration)
April 07, 2020 06:01 - 34 minutes - 15.8 MBA psychiatrist falls in love with his patient and moves her in with his family leading to serious problems. Original Air Date: October 2, 1946 Go t Read more ...
AWR0105: Suspense: The Story of Markham’s Death (Kirk Douglas Celebration)
April 06, 2020 18:04 - 33 minutes - 15.3 MBA mystery writer with writer’s block discovers a lost Edgar Allan Poe manuscript while visiting London and decides to rewrite it to bring back his career.< Read more ...
AWR0104: The Short Career of Dexter Coles (Jack Webb Centennial)
April 01, 2020 06:01 - 35 minutes - 16.2 MBA writer sells out to a corrupt political machine boss in order to give a better life to his daughter. Original Air Date: February 8, 1950 Go to
AWR0103: Escape: Poison (Jack Webb Centennial)
March 30, 2020 06:01 - 35 minutes - 16.6 MBA man’s bigoted friend is trapped in bed with a deadly snake, and the only one who can help is a doctor from India. Original Air Date: July 28, 1950 Read more ...
AWR0102: Guest Star: By Mere Coincidence and Hour of St. Francis: Welcome Home, Soldier (Jack Webb Centennial)
March 25, 2020 06:01 - 32 minutes - 15.1 MBIn “Mere Coincidence,” a salesman ends up with someone else’s luggage and then learns the hard way that the owner is a Soviet Agent. Original A Read more ...
AWR0101: Guest Star: Road to Yesterday and the Gift of Life (Jack Webb Centennial)
March 23, 2020 06:01 - 37 minutes - 17.5 MBA woman (Bonita Granville )reflects on her life after death in “The Road to Yesterday” In “the Gift of Life,” a taxi driver (Jack Read more ...
AWR0100: The Whistler: The Perfect Alibi (Jack Webb Centennial)
March 18, 2020 06:01 - 34 minutes - 15.8 MBA private eye falls for a beautiful woman with thousands of dollars in gambling debts and a rich uncle. Original Air Date: June 12, 1949 Go to