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This week, we return after a couple of weeks away, and we can't wait to tune around the old radio a bit, listening to those old serials of 1932. This week's episodes: Si and Elmer,
Radio Journeys is the only OTR show that presents original serials and network shows in their original order and in their entirety, piecing together surviving recordings. This week,...
Radio Journeys is the only OTR show that presents original radio serials in their original order and in their entirety, and in as authentic a manner as possible. This week, two more...
This week, we continue the Tarzan/Chandu double feature, with episodes of these two serials both originally broadcast on September 13, 1932. But first, we take a look at the marketing...
This week on Radio Journeys, we start cycling through the earliest radio serial with a name that remains iconic today: Tarzan of the Apes. We begin by taking a brief look at how the...
This week on an extended edition of Radio Journeys, we mark National Women's History Month with a special look at the Boswell Sisters... the innovators of close harmony female singing...
Here's the missing episode: Radio Journeys 76. Production was started, but not completed, until now! But all things work out for the best, and this week, a mistake becomes a special...
Radio Journeys is the only OTR show that presents original serials from the early '30s in their entirety and in original order. Journey with us to 1932, as we hear the latest episodes...
Yes, more of the serials of 1932, this week on Radio Journeys, the only OTR show anywhere that presents all known series in their original order and as completely as possible. This
This week, we hear the second surviving episode of Ed Wynn's Texaco Fire Chief, as heard on August 9, 1932. But first... the strange tale of Amalgamated, the radio network that very...
This week, the serials of '32 are back, with another episode of the Redbook Dramas, Family Doctor, Si and Elmer, and the World Adventurers' Club (program ad pictured at right). But
It's been one of the most hotly contested titles in broadcasting: The First Radio Station. At least four stations in North America have tried to claim it. The most famous of these,
This week, Radio Journeys continues its special look at the origins of radio and broadcasting. In a unique, extended episode, we hear one of the most historic of all radio recordings:...
This Christmas Eve, 2006, is the 100th Anniversary of broadcasting... the 100th anniversary of the very first transmission of voice and music. This week, in a special, unusual presentation,...
This week, we inaugurate a new serial. Listen to find out which one we've chosen! Plus three serials continue: Redbook Dramas, with an episode dated July 28, 1932; Family Doctor, episode...
This week, the second episode of the Ziegfeld Follies from 1932, as we continue our special look at this seminal radio program. We feature the origins of Baby Snooks, who first appeared...
Radio Journeys returns after a two-week break for a much-needed studio upgrade. And this week, we pay tribute to Florenz Ziegfeld, the master promoter who only tasted radio fame in
This week, we hear the earliest surviving episode of Ed Wynn's Texaco Fire Chief, from July 26, 1932. Not only is it the earliest surviving Wynn show, but it's one of the earliest 10...
Just in time for Halloween... We bring you... The Witch's Tale... from July 25, 1932. We meet Old Nancy the Witch for a tale of revenge, ghosts with severed heads, and pranks gone very...
Each week, Radio Journeys presents an hour of original radio as it was broadcast in the early 1930s, featuring serials broadcast in their entirety and in their original order. This
Radio Journeys is the only OTR program anywhere that is dedicated entirely to the earliest days of radio--the 1920s and early 1930s. Each week, we reconstruct a full hour of programming...
This week, we hear the first of seven shows by Kay Kyser and His Orchestra, originally broadcast in 1932 or 1934... Masterpieces of early radio swing. Plus, the latest installments
Radio Journeys is the only OTR program dedicated to the earliest days of radio, with a weekly exploration of radio as it sounded in the 1920's and early 1930's. Each week, we play one...
This week, a special focus on Si and Elmer. After the first 40 episodes, more recordings of this quirky '30s serial do survive, but they are elusive and harder to find. Host John Grimmett...
We're happy to be back, and we're continuing right where we left off ... with Redbook Dramas, episode 4, "Pass to Peking," a historical radioplay based on a story by Vincent Sheehan....
Episode 3 of Redbook Dramas, from June 9, 1932, is our main feature this week, with a dramatized short story written by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, who later would go on to be a moderately...
This week, we start a two-month, nine-part presentation of Redbook Magazine Dramas, perhaps the first time these well-made radio short stories have been broadcast since the 1930s. Last...
Yes, Radio Journeys is back after a brief vacation. We were delayed by technical issues at Libsyn, too. But here we are, and it's good to be back.
We're continuing through the serials...
Radio Journeys is back after a brief layover, and it's good to be back on track, with more of those great 1932 serials. As we continue to cycle through the serials--every single one...
Our special feature this week is Redbook Magazine Radio Dramas, show #1, from May 26, 1932. Redbook Dramas were syndicated dramatizations of stories from the women's magazine, famous...
This week, the original horror--"The Witch's Tale," with an excellently preserved recording of the show originally broadcast on May 16, 1932. Plus, a look at how the show's creator,...
NEW! Now Streaming! RADIO JOURNEYS Presents ... Your Daily OTR ... 1930s Radio Programming Originally Broadcast on This Date.Tune in here!Daily Schedule Here!
For Every Andy, There...
NEW! Now Streaming! RADIO JOURNEYS Presents ... Your Daily OTR ... 1930s Radio Programming Originally Broadcast on This Date.Tune in here!Daily Schedule Here!
A Case of "The Last and...
This week's feature is the Majestic Theater of the Air, a show that had been a mainstay of the late '20s CBS lineup, only to become an obscure 15-minute syndicated serial in the early...
NEW! Now Streaming! RADIO JOURNEYS Presents ... Your Daily OTR ... 1930s Radio Programming Originally Broadcast on This Date.Tune in here!Daily Schedule Here!
"Here they are"... Restored!
Yes,...
NEW! Now Streaming! RADIO JOURNEYS Presents ... Your Daily OTR ... 1930s Radio Programming Originally Broadcast on This Date.Tune in here!Daily Schedule Here!
Today's Highlight, Wednesday,...
NEW! Now Streaming! RADIO JOURNEYS Presents ... Your Daily OTR ... 1930s Radio Programming Originally Broadcast on This Date.Tune in here!Daily Schedule Here!
Today's Highlight, Wednesday,...
Today, we inaugurate our new Stream: "Daily OTR," with background on how the stream works, and what you can expect to hear there. Then, into four more episodes from the serials of 1932:...
This week, we celebrate the 50th episode, and first anniversary, of Radio Journeys with a special on Jack Benny... How and why he got into radio, featuring Benny's first "professional"...
Three programs this week from the same evening, Thursday, April 21, 1932: Omar the Wizard of Persia, Episode 10, Chandu the Magician, and Anson Weeks and His Orchestra--the last is
We're back, with more episodes of those serials from 1932. First, Si and Elmer, part 16 of the "A Dangerous Mystery Case;" then, Episode 5 of "The Family Doctor." Next, two adventure...
Our host is away for the Easter weekend, spending time with family and friends. We'll be back next weekend with more of the serials from 1932, including Chandu, Omar, and the Family...
This week: Family Doctor, episode 4; Misadventures of Si and Elmer, episode 23; From April 13, 1932, Chandu, The Magician; and from April 14, the seventh episode (one of two known surviving)...
This week, we win OTR collector's Bingo! Three shows all dated Tuesday, April 12, 1932. Here's what was on the radio on that evening, according to actual newspaper radio pages: 6:00...
This week, we continue with the next episodes of four serials from last week: Si and Elmer, Ann of The Airlanes, episode 2 of the Family Doctor, and the second surviving episode of
This week, we start two more serials from 1932: The very '30s feel-gooder "Family Doctor," and "Chandu the Magician." Chandu is one of the earliest serials of its kind--an adventure...
This week, continuing through the serials of 1932, as we finish two of them--Abroad with the Lockharts and the Cocoanut Grove Ambassadors. Also, as usual, the next installment of Si...
Radio Journeys is taking a break from production this week. We'll be back next week with more of the same serials, including one more episode from the Cocoanut Grove Ambassadors, plus...
This week, our cycle continues through 3 surviving radio serials of 1932, plus the very special document "Cocoanut Grove Ambassadors." Plus, we look at the history of the Cocoanut Grove...
The musical highlight this week is the Cocoanut Grove Ambassadors, with Jimmy Grier and His Orchestra, in a Sunday afternoon syndicated show from 1932, and from the legendary Cocoanut...
Anson Weeks is back, in a performance from February 24, 1932. And so are Si and Elmer, The Lockharts, and Ann of the Airlanes. And, we take another peek at the newspaper radio page,...
The serials of '32 just keep rolling.... More from Si and Elmer, The Lockharts, Ann of the Airlanes, and George Bruce's Air Stories. Plus, a look at some of the legend and lore behind...
More of those great serials from 1932. Plus, a look at what was highlighted on the radio page of local newspapers, the first day of February 1932, with samples of the Boswell Sisters...
It's more of those mysterious serials from 1932--the first year from which a truly large number of shows survive. We continue cycling through four syndicated serials: Ann of the Airlanes,...
Continuing this week with our cycle through the "mystery" serials of 1932: Ann of the Airlanes, Si and Elmer, and Abroad with the Lockharts. Plus, another delightful time with Anson...
This week, we feature early radio's "mystery" serials--not "whodunnits", but syndicated shows that radio historians and collectors know almost nothing about. There's a set of these
We celebrate the new year by entering 1932, and we try something we've never done before: a "hypothetical" reconstruction of program schedules. Thanks to online newspaper archives,
For your Christmas, we start with a sonic Christmas card... an OTR stocking stuffer, if you will... a rare glimpse at how Christmas sounded on the radio in 1929. Then, a fully wrapped...
"The Bingle" was one of the enduring icons of Christmas during the 20th Century, so this week we present, as a pre-Christmas special, a deeper look at Bing Crosby's earliest radio broadcasts,...
This week, we hear one of the earliest surviving broadcasts from network radio, and one of the earliest comedy/variety shows: Eddie Cantor on the Chase and Sanborn Hour from December...
This week, we spoil your ears with a pristine recording of Bing Crosby's first radio appearance, from 1931. Then Si and Elmer return for a new case of ineptitude. Last, another episode...
This week, we engage in a little "audio-archeology," sifting through some of the rarest and most mysterious of all OTR recordings. First, we hear all five surviving fragments of "Smackout,"...
Come on over our place tonight and spend Friday, March 6, 1931, listening to Radio