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Contemporary Programs

Framework Radio

A weekly international radio art program focused on field recording of sounds and their use in compositions. Alternate episodes are artist curated. LEARN more.

Hitchhiker's Guide ... Galaxy

(1978-1980). SciFi comedy series by Douglas Adams. Travel with Arthur Dent and Ford Perfect aboard a stolen spaceship with a motley crew. LEARN more.

Specials

Curated, on demand listening opportunities, each with a specific theme or focus. These special programs are meant for listening and learning. Enjoy. LEARN more.

Sound Art

I Love Bees

(2004). Alternate reality game (ARG) / experiential marketing campaign for the video game Halo 2. Featured jumbled audio files and random narrative dialogue. LEARN more.

Symphony of Sirens

(1922). Composition / installation / performance using the sounds of factories, machines, whistles, and sirens of all kinds to celebrate the 1917 Russian revolution. LEARN more.

Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine

(1983-1993). A bimonthly magazine focusing on New York's experimental art, music, poetry, and drama scene. Each episode was a cassette tape. LEARN more.

Old Time Radio Adventure

Escape!

(1947-1954). OTR adventure series. Often cited as the finest adventure series ever broadcast. Episodes adapted classic and contemporary stories by well-known writers. LEARN more.

Terry and the Pirates

(1938-1948). OTR action-adventure series popular during World War II. Terry Lee and friends fought against Oriental and Nazi German adversaries. LEARN more.

Old Time Radio Anthology

Black Museum, The

(1952-1954). OTR dramatic murder-crime anthology series produced in London, England, by Harry Alan Towers. Hosted and narrated by Orson Welles. Acknowledged as the best of four series focused on The Black Museum. LEARN more.

Columbia Workshop, The

(1936-1947). OTR dramatic series that experimented with different modes of narrative and forms of radio drama. 1938-1939 were productive years under the direction of Irving Reis. LEARN more.

Mercury Theatre, The

(1938-1940). OTR dramatic anthology series often acclaimed as offering the finest radio drama. 1938 was a particularly productive year under the direction of Orson Welles. LEARN more.

Mysterious Traveler, The

(1943-1952). OTR dramatic anthology series written, produced, and directed by Robert A. Arthur and David Kogen. Episodes ranged from wild science fiction to straight crime. LEARN more.

Suspense

(1942-1962). OTR dramatic anthology series featuring tales of crime, adventure, science fiction, and the supernatural. Often cited as one of radio's best series. The classic episode was Sorry, Wrong Number. LEARN more.

Whitehall 1212

(1951-1952). OTR dramatic murder-crime anthology series written by Wyliss Cooper. Told from the point of view of police investigating an actual crime in London. LEARN more.

Old Time Radio Comics

Comic Weekly Man, The

(1947-1954). OTR dramatic series. Lon Clark turned the Sunday comics into skits (complete with music and sound effects), by performing a cast of comic heroes and villains. LEARN more

Old Time Radio Crime

New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The

(1939-1946). OTR crime and detective series following the cases of Sherlock Holmes. Starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. LEARN more.

Nick Carter

(1943-1955). OTR crime series based on a fictional private detective first introduced in an 1886 Street & Smith dime novel. More than 700 episodes, each one starring Lon Clark. LEARN more.

Shadow, The

(1937-1938). OTR crime series about a young man who used a mysterious power to "cloud men's minds" and thwart criminal activities. Orson Welles starred this year, and for the first time, The Shadow was a character rather than the announcer. LEARN more.

Whisperer, The

(1951). A short-lived weekly OTR crime series. Philip Gault, a lawyer, acts as a front for The Syndicate, even while trying to disrupt its plans. His voice is feared by all. LEARN more.

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar

(1949-1962). OTR crime and detective series about a freelance insurance investigator with an action packed expense account. The last dramatic series offered on network radio. LEARN more.

Old Time Radio Documentary

Freedom's People

(1941-1942). OTR eight-part documentary series, and the first major radio series, focused on African-American life, culture, and history. LEARN more.

You Are There

(1947-1950). OTR documentary / drama series acclaimed for dramatizing historical events using the international CBS news staff. Listeners felt present at the event, hearing it unfold. LEARN more.

Old Time Radio Drama

Adventures of Harry Lime, The

(1951-1952). OTR drama starring Orson Welles. Episodes provide a prequel to Welles' acclaimed role as con-artist Harry Lime in the 1949 British noir film The Third Man. LEARN more.

Candy Matson, YUkon 28209

(1949-1951). OTR drama series noted for its intelligent, no-nonsense female protagonist. A compelling alternative to the male detective radio genre. LEARN more.

Quiet, Please!

(1947-1949). OTR drama series noted for its surrealistic quality and challenging the traditional entertainment formula. Written and directed by Wyllis Cooper; narrated by Ernest Chappel. LEARN more.

Stroke of Fate

(1953). OTR drama series exploring alternate histories based on fateful decisions or accidents. Attempted to foster knowledge development and critical thinking among its audience. LEARN more.

Old Time Radio Horror

Lights Out

(1934-1939). OTR horror series (often cited as the ultimate) noted for its efforts to provide an immersive experience for listeners, expecting them to shut off distracting stimuli (like the lights) and concentrate on the story. LEARN more.

Witch's Tale, The

(1931-1934). The first OTR fantasy-horror series and set the standard for host-based anthology series. Directed, produced, and written by Alonzo Deen Cole. LEARN more.

Old Time Radio Juvenile

Captain Starr of Space

(1953-1954). OTR juvenile science fiction adventure series with Martian thieves, space ships, ray guns, and exciting galactic adventures. Possibly, only four episodes survive. LEARN more.

Jack Armstrong

(1933-1951). OTR juvenile adventure series following the globe-trotting Jack Armstrong, his cousins Billy and Betty Fairfield, and his Uncle Jim. One of the longest running juvenile radio adventure series. LEARN more.

Satellite Seven

(1958). BBC OTR juvenile series about two brothers, shipwrecked on a Scottish Island where a scientist plans to launch a nuclear powered rocket carrying a satellite around the moon and back to the island. Can the two brothers stop a thief? LEARN more.

Old Time Radio Mystery

I Love a Mystery

(1939-1952). OTR mystery serial about three friends who traveled the world looking for adventure, and excitement. Episodes straddled the borders between mystery, horror, humor, supernatural, and mysticism. LEARN more.

Old Time Radio Science Fiction

X Minus One

(1955-1958). OTR science fiction drama series with many episodes featuring adaptations of stories by leading science fiction writers. Often acknowledged as the best science fiction anthology radio show. LEARN more.

Old Time Radio Space

Flash Gordon

(1935). OTR space adventure series following the adventures of Flash Gordon and his companions Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov on the planet Mongo. LEARN more.

Space Patrol

(1950-1955). OTR space opera series. In the 30th-century, Commander Buzz Corry of the United Planets Space Patrol and his sidekick, Cadet Happy, faced, each week, diabolical interplanetary villains and their schemes. LEARN more.

Old Time Radio Western

Gunsmoke

(1952-1961). OTR western drama, sometimes called the best radio drama ever. Noted for historical accuracy and realism seldom achieved on radio. Episodes often overturned Western fiction stereotypes. LEARN more.