Vintage Radio

The first Old Time Radio app on the iPhone. Listen to 40,000 of the best episodes from the Golden Age of Radio.

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Chapter one of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde has no potion, no laboratory, and no Mr Hyde. Just a boy.

In 1943, Australian radio gave Stevenson's novella 52 nightly chapters — and began with the childhood he never wrote.

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Sixteen days earlier, Bing Crosby was on an operating table.

March 29, 1950: he strolls up to the mic with the Andrews Sisters and a Dixieland band of Disney animators in fire helmets — and you'd never know it. 🎤

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They took away every machine, and every memory of where they came from. The colonists got smarter anyway.

Now the empire has to decide whether a planet of geniuses is allowed to live. Poul Anderson, 1958.

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A pair of saddle shoes at the curb — the kind every kid wore to a school dance in 1953.

Mike Hammer follows them. Their owner shoots first.

Mickey Spillane's hardest-boiled PI, free:
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Every family has one: the in-law who never thought you were good enough.

Thanksgiving 1948, and Chester A. Riley is about to prove him right — gravy and all.

The Life of Riley. What a revoltin' development. 🦃

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He laughed off every ghost story at the Tower of London.

Then the gate locked behind him at midnight — and the headless dead began to walk.

Dark Fantasy, 1942. Radio horror at its coldest. 🎧

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You don't expect a Christmas story from Tarzan. But deep in the jungle, a lonely missionary is fighting to hold his church's first Christmas — against the priests of an ancient Moon God. Then the Lord of the Jungle steps in.

A 1951 holiday adventure:

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There's a town in Montana where it's against the law to carry a gun. An English journalist rides in and learns why: the Shelton Brothers are hiding there — from Billy the Kid.

The 1958 premiere of Frontier Gentleman, one of radio's last great Westerns:

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Groucho Marx was so sure a quiz show could really be a comedy show, he paid to record the audition himself. This 1947 tryout is where it all began — the questions barely matter, the wisecracks are everything:

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Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world... In 1943, Bogart, Bergman & Henreid stepped up to a live mic and played it all again — "Casablanca," the whole story, in half an hour.

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The scariest radio show of the 1940s had no music at all — no score, no stings, just voices in the dark and the silence between them.

The Weird Circle turned Poe and Stevenson into pure dread. Step inside, free:
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You hear him before you see him — the click of steel where a smile should be.

On CBS's "Escape," ordinary men got pulled into the dark. Tonight: "The Man With Steel Teeth."

Dim the lights and press play:

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@capitalweather Tell us how smoke affects thunderstorms.

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He only ever robs the rich and greedy -- so the law brands him an outlaw. But when the Cisco Kid crosses trails with the feared Apache Kid, the Old West's most gallant hero has to prove which 'Kid' is the real bandit.

Saddle up, 1953:

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He couldn't win the match. He also couldn't back down. That, in one sentence, is Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve.

One smug houseguest, one dare -- and Summerfield's proudest man is in the sand trap by noon. Nov 5, 1952.

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By day he runs the city's biggest newspaper. By night the police hunt him as a wanted criminal -- and that's exactly how he wants it.

The masked man taking a bite out of the rackets the law can't touch. 1939:

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@Insolent_Villag @RodDMartin Good lord. It’s fewer people. People is a plural noun. Plural nouns are modified by fewer, not less.

Back to grammar school for you.

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@Joso72172168 @Dream_CanvasArt @AsianDawn4 Thank you for your explanation.

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