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HOT COPY RADIO THEATER

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We re-create lost episodes of the 1940s radio show, "HOT COPY" -- all adapted from the original scripts! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Classic Streams: Old Time Retro Radio

Dwight Allen

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4h ago4h ago

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Popular radio programs of the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960s Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dwight-allen0/support

Hudson River Radio .com

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Hudson River Radio's own Big Jim Wheeler is thrilled to share his personal collection of classic radio shows from the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s! Jim grew up on a farm in upstate New York, where TV shows were scarce, and where radio was king. It was a time where families would gather around the radio to hear the latest episode of their favorite shows.

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Radio Drama

Radio Memories Network

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7h ago7h ago

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Classic Dramas achieved widespread popularity within a decade of its initial development in the 1920s. By the 1940s, Drama on the radio was a leading international popular entertainment. The Radio Drama drew from the rich talent pool of Hollywood and the actors were able to bring the movie screen presence and talent to the radio.

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Blast into Adventure!

Paul Dailing

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4y ago4y ago

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A COVID-quarantined suburban dad starts listening to a 1940s radio show that shouldn’t exist. Then the show starts listening back. Comedy/Horror All episodes drop Halloween 2020.

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Zoomer Radio's Theatre of the Mind

Zoomer Podcast Network

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5h ago5h ago

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Frank Proctor selects, and then describes some of the greatest shows from the golden age of radio — the 1930s and 1940s — like The Shadow and Fibber McGee & Molly. A half-hour of drama, mystery or suspense is followed by a half-hour of comedy.

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Quiet Please (2020)

Foley Marra Studios

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1+ y ago1+ y ago

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Foley Marra Studios re-voices and reinvents the classic 1940's radio plays by Wyllis Cooper. Each story only lasts about 30 minutes, so it is a perfect escape for when you need a little Quiet...please.

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Fiona & Jack Radio

Fiona & Jack Radio

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9y ago9y ago

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Fiona Murphy '16 & Jack Doherty '16 RJHS Radio station

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The Big Band and Swing Podcast

Swing City Radio

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4d ago4d ago

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The Big Band and Swing Podcast is a weekly podcast that focuses on the music, artists and history of the Big Band Era of the 1930‘s, 1940’s and 1950‘s. You will hear classic Big Band recordings and forgotten performances rescued from Old Time Radio Broadcasts (OTR), Soundies, V-Discs and other AFRS archives.

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WQUR: Queer Quarantine Radio

WQUR: Queer Quarantine Radio

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4+ y ago4+ y ago

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Stay safe, stay sane, stay queer (and stay home!) with WQUR: Queer Quarantine Radio, starring BenDeLaCreme, Jinkx Monsoon, Peaches Christ and Major Scales! This thrilling, hilarious, and oh so campy scripted comedy series is inspired by 1940s radio shows of yesterQUEER for the modern, quarantine era. WQUR promises you’ll THRILL at the drama and GAG at the eleganza. Support this podcast at anchor.fm/WQUR and Patreon.com/WQUR

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Old Time Radio Nero Wolfe

Adam Graham

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Join Adam Graham, host of the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio as he presents all of the existing old time radio episodes of Nero Wolfe including the only surviving 1940s episodes and then all 25 of the Sidney Greenstreet New Adventures of Nero Wolfe. Join Rex Stout's famous sleuth as joined by a bushel of Archie Goodwins, he solves a wide variety of crimes while rarely leaving his New York City brownstone.

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Theater of Thrills

John Henderson

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1y ago1y ago

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Spooky Old Time Radio shows, inspired by "Inner Sanctum Mysteries" and featuring great audio Drama like "Suspense".

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The Time Traveler’s Radio Show!

Cody Cutler & Jacob Earnest

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9M ago37w ago

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Trapped in the 1940s and with communication systems down, an intrepid team of Time travelers is forced to use the only communication available: the radio! Telling their story as a 1940s-style radio adventure, they are in desperate need to have someone in the future hear and rescue them, as they hold the fate of the universe—a small pocket watch—in their very hands. This special presentation of ACTUAL RECORDINGS from the Golden Age (or sometimes not so Golden Age) of Radio is presented free o ...

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ScarletPassage's podcast

Brad Helm

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9+ y ago9+ y ago

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Scarlet Passage is a podcast of sketch comedy and interviews done in the style of a 1940's radio suspense program. Performed by: Kelly Bolton, Caroline Neff, Brad Helm, Tony St. Clair written/produced/Edit: Brad Helm Art Work: Brad Oexeman Special Thanks: Columbia College Chicago, James Chafin, Brandon Campbell, Lacy Campbell, Dark Eyed Strangers, Brad Coxswain, Hansum Products

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Noir Confidential

Jerry Bader

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Noir Confidential draws upon the era of filmmaking known as Film Noir. Today, the genre is called Neo-Noir, but the same concepts, tropes, and techniques are used to reflect today's feelings of inevitability, cynicism and defeat. The pessimism, distrust, and greed displayed in classic Film Noir movies like "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Third Man" speak to a society racked by geopolitical conflict and economic disparity. All the elements that sparked the Film Noir heyday have returned to haun ...

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Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: The Early Years (1940s, 1950s and 1960s)

BBC Radio 4

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56y ago56y ago

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The assassinations of John F Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy through to Vietnam and America’s shame at the My Lai massacre. A fascinating social, cultural and political history of American life, through the words of British-American journalist and broadcaster, Alistair Cooke (1908 – 2004).

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The Old Time Radio Snack Wagon

Adam Graham

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29d ago4w ago

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Get ready for the first-ever snackable Old Time Radio podcast. Each week listen for a bite-sized sample of the Golden Age of Radio and journey back to the twentieth century. Gain keen insights into life in the 1930s, 1940s , and 1950s through short-form old-time radio programs including comedic moments, full-cast short dramas, stories from the greatest storytellers of the past. Unearth legends and rediscover those who have long been forgotten, all while gaining keen insights into life in a w ...

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What's The Frequency?

James Oliva

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A psychedelic noir audio drama podcast set in 1940s Los Angeles. Recently radio broadcasts in the city have been reduced to static, leaving a popular radio serial as the only remaining show on the air. Even then the show finds itself continuously interrupted by a mysterious broadcast. A lone distorted voice reaching out for help. Follow Walter “Troubles” Mix and his partner Whitney as they search for a missing writer and navigate through a city quickly falling into madness. Could the mysteri ...

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Lil' Miss Kate - Ward of the State

Lil' Miss Kate - Ward of the State

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LIL MISS KATE - WARD OF THE STATE is a narrative comedy podcast in the style of classic radio serials like Little Orphan Annie and The Shadow. Each episode follows Kate, precocious orphan extraordinaire, her guardian, the witless Deputy Mayor of New York City Solomon Russell, her daring Personal Tutor and former Heavyweight Champion of the World, Lucinda Sheraton, and of course, her ever-present horse companion, Fiorello, as they tackle all manner of old-timey adventures. Find us at lilmissk ...

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Erasmus Dagger

Jess Miller, Bob Lynch

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Join Sherriff Erasmus Dagger as he defends the city of New Chicago in the year 2999! Complete with a femme fatale love interest, an evil villain, and an annoying landlady, Erasmus Dagger tells a comedic tale that simultaneously parodies and pays homage to the sci-fi and western radio plays of the 1940s and 50s.

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KOLD

Isabelle Avalon Rogers

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3+ y ago3+ y ago

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An original comedy podcast with songs. A co-production of the Very Little Theatre in Eugene, Oregon. Intended for those who are nostalgic, young at heart, and/or big fans of radio dramas, Celtic music, ad jingles, and Mechagodzilla. Certified to entertain and to lack any references of COVID and depressing current events. Eleanor dreams of finding millions of listeners for her station, KOLD Radio, and bringing 1940s-style radio dramas back to the mainstream. But right now, she's only losing m ...

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The Cassettes

The Cassettes

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The Vaudeville-Western-Steampunk band from Washington, D.C., The Cassettes! Mobile Blogging/Media fun from their travels and beyond.

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The Riverdale Podcast Presents: The Archie Andrews Old Time Radio Show

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The Riverdale Podcast is excited to present the classic Archie Andrews old time radio show. These classic tales from Riverdale were first broadcast back in the 1940's on the NBC radio network. Please note that the original broadcast recordings contained in these episodes are in the public domain. The Riverdale Podcast claims no ownership of the broadcast recording in this episode. Archie, Jughead, Betty, Veronica, and all of the other related characters are owned by Archie Comic Publications.

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All Star Western Theatre

Entertainment Radio

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All Star Western Theatre Vintage Radio: Adventure & Musical Variety All Star Western Theater was an adventure and musical variety show broadcast in the 1940s. The series featured drama, comic skids, and American Western-style music performance when Western Swing was all the rage.

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THE KRAKEN BUSTERS

THE KRAKEN BUSTERS

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Telling the story of America's strangest conflict, the largely forgotten war between the United States and an ocean full of angry sea monsters in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

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Batman Adventures Podcast

Humphrey Camardella Productions

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During Mutual Radio broadcast of "The Adventures of Superman", starting in 1945 Superman and Batman, years before their comic book collaborations, really became a functioning team. But largely the team-up of Batman, and Superman provided some time off for an overworked Bud Collyer (Superman). These episodes called for Superman to be occupied elsewhere, and the crime fighting would be handled by Batman. Stacy Harris played Batman in this first team-up with the Man of Steel, and Ronald Liss wa ...

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Gunsmoke

Entertainment Radio

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In the late 1940s, CBS chairman William S. Paley, a fan of the Philip Marlowe radio series, asked his programming chief, Hubell Robinson, to develop a hardboiled Western series, a show about a "Philip Marlowe of the Old West". Robinson instructed his West Coast CBS Vice President, Harry Ackerman, who had developed the Philip Marlowe series, to take on the task. Ackerman and his scriptwriters, Mort Fine and David Friedkin, created an audition script called "Mark Dillon Goes to Gouge Eye" base ...

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The Abbott and Costello Radio Show

Abbott And Costello

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Abbott and Costello were an American comedy duo composed of comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, whose work with radio, film, and television made them the most popular comedy team of the 1940s and early 1950s, and the highest-paid entertainers in the world during World War II. Their patter routine "Who's on First?" is considered one of the best-known comedy routines of all time.[1] Their popularity waned in the early 1950s due to overexposure and changing tastes in comedy, and their film a ...

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Juke In The Back

Matt The Cat

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At the end of the Second World War, economics forced the big bands to trim their once great size and thus, the Jump Blues combo was born. Between 1946-1954, rhythm and blues laid the tracks for what was to become Rock n’ Roll. So how come, 75 years later, this vibrant and influential music is still so unknown to so many? Matt The Cat is going to change that with the radio program, “Juke In The Back.” These were the records that you couldn’t hear on the jukebox in the front of the establishme ...

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Box 13

Entertainment Radio

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"Box 13" was a thrilling radio drama that aired in the late 1940s, captivating audiences with its blend of mystery, adventure, and suspense. Here's a breakdown of the show: Premise: Dan Holiday, a former newspaper reporter turned novelist, craves real-life experiences to fuel his stories. He places an ad in his old paper: "Adventure wanted, will go anywhere, do anything. Write Box 13." The mysterious Box 13 becomes his address for trouble, as people seeking help, criminals with schemes, and ...

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Adventures by Morse

Entertainment Radio

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Adventures by Morse is a syndicated adventure series produced, written and directed by Carlton E. Morse in the mid-1940s, shortly after NBC canceled his I Love a Mystery series. Morse produced 52 episodes of the program, each 30 minutes long. Listen to our radio station Old Time Radiohttps://link.radioking.com/otradio Listen to other Shows at My Classic Radio https://www.myclassicradio.net/ Podcast Service I Recommend https://redcircleinc.grsm.io/entertainmentradio7148 Remember that times ha ...

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The Comedic Genius of Martin and Lewis

Brian K. Noe

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In the late 1940s and early 1950s Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis created some of the most irresistible hilarity in the history of entertainment. Now you can enjoy the best of the Martin and Lewis Show, which aired on NBC Radio from 1949 through 1953. Listen in, and find out what all the fuss was about! Your ears will never be the same.

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Windrush Stories

Prison Radio Association

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Windrush Stories is a collection of full-length interviews from members of 'the Windrush Generation'. People who became known as the Windrush Generation began arriving in the UK from the Caribbean nations in the 1940s. They travelled to embark on a new life helping rebuild the 'Mother Country' during the post-war period. This generation, and their children and grandchildren, have significantly influenced British society through sport, politics, art, poetry, literature, language, food, and mo ...

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Abbott and Costello: The Official Podcast of Abbott and Costello’s Old Time Radio Shows

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello

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Abbott and Costello were an American comedy duo composed of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, whose work on radio and in film and television made them the most popular comedy team of the 1940s and early 1950s. The show mixed comedy with musical interludes and special guests. The real lives of the duo were often folded into comedy bits, creating even more dynamic fun for the audience and the performers themselves. Word play was a signature theme of Abbott and Costello, as made most famous in their ...

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Fibber McGee and Molly

Entertainment Radio

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Fibber McGee and Molly was a 1935-1959 American radio comedy series. The situation comedy, a staple of the NBC Red Network for the show's entire run and one of the most popular and enduring radio series of its time, ran as a stand-alone series from 1935 to 1956, and then continued as a short-form series as part of the weekend Monitor from 1957 to 1959. The title characters were created and portrayed by Jim and Marian Jordan, a real-life husband and wife team that had been working in radio si ...

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Famous Stories: Damon Runyon Theater

John Henderson

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From "Little Miss Marker" to "The Lemon Drop Kid" these are the famous stories of gangsters, bookies and racketeers...with a heart of gold. Each week for a full year listen to the tales of the guys and dolls of Broadway, as told by the master storyteller Damon Runyon.

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The Adventures of Sam Spade

Entertainment Radio

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The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective was a radio series based loosely on the private detective character Sam Spade, created by writer Dashiell Hammett for The Maltese Falcon. The show ran for 13 episodes on ABC in 1946, for 157 episodes on CBS in 1946-1949, and finally for 51 episodes on NBC in 1949-1951. The series starred Howard Duff (and later, Steve Dunne) as Sam Spade and Lurene Tuttle as his secretary Effie, and took a considerably more tongue-in-cheek approach to the character than ...

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