Old-time radio, on this day in history · a new episode every day
with Winnie Hale
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This Day in Old Time Radio is the daily old-time radio podcast: every day, one complete classic radio show that first aired on this date in history, from the golden age of radio, the 1930s to the 1960s. Westerns, detective shows, comedy, science fiction and suspense: Gunsmoke, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, Suspense, The Jack Benny Program, X Minus One, Our Miss Brooks and more, remastered. Host Winnie Hale, radio archivist, sets each broadcast in its day and tells you what else was on the air that date. A new episode every day. A Stupid Potato show.
This Day in Old Time Radio is a free daily old-time radio podcast from Stupid Potato. Every day it plays one complete classic radio show that first went out over the air on that same calendar date, sometime between the 1930s and the early 1960s: a western, a private-eye drama, a sitcom, a science-fiction story or a thriller, start to finish, the way listeners heard it that night. It is "on this day in history" for the golden age of radio.
Your host is Winnie Hale, the keeper of the Stupid Potato archive. Before each broadcast she gives you the date and the year it aired, who made the series and who starred in it, a hook for the story without giving away the ending, and what else from the archive was on the air on the same date in other years. Then the show plays whole, and she signs off with a nod to tomorrow's date.
Radio was the country's living room from the 1930s until television took over in the 1950s. Families planned their evenings around Jack Benny on Sunday night, Gunsmoke brought the adult western to CBS in 1952, and Suspense ran for twenty years as "radio's outstanding theater of thrills." The era is usually said to have ended on September 30, 1962, when Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar and Suspense aired their last episodes on CBS. Every recording here is remastered for steady, clean sound.
Yes. This Day in Old Time Radio plays one complete classic radio show every day that first aired on that calendar date, from the 1930s to the early 1960s, hosted by Winnie Hale. Subscribe free in any podcast app or listen on stupidpotato.com.
Yes. Each day's broadcast plays whole, start to finish, between a short introduction and a short sign-off. Episodes run about as long as the original show plus three minutes.
Then Winnie picks the nearest date within a few days and says so: "this week in 1949" instead of "on this day." No broadcast is repeated within a year.
It is usually dated to September 30, 1962, when CBS aired the last episodes of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar and Suspense, the final network radio dramas of the era.
The host, an original character: a warm, curious radio archivist from Dayton, Ohio, who grew up in her grandfather's radio repair shop and spent thirty years as a public-radio librarian.
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