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Edward G. Robinson stars as Steve Wilson managing editor for the Illustrated Press in episode 192 from September of 1942. Steve and Lorelei find a dead body in a cheap hotel and a tall blonde murderess.

Bob Crosby from San Francisco on NBC in 1940. Episode 7. George Robert Crosby (August 23, 1913 – March 9, 1993) was an American jazz singer and bandleader, best known for his group the Bob-Cats, which was formed around 1935. The Bob-Cats were a New Orleans Dixieland-style jazz octet. He was the younger brother of famed singer and actor Bing Crosby. On TV, Bob Crosby guest-starred in The Gisele Mac...

Karl Haas chats about the music of Edvard Hagerup Grieg (15 June 1843 – 4 September 1907). Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the main Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide. His use and development of Norwegian folk music in his own compositions brought the music of Norway to international consciousness,...

Episode of May 13, 1962 on CBS Radio Network starring Mandel Kramer (March 12, 1916 – January 29, 1989). He was an American Radio and TV actor. He is best known as the last Johnny Dollar from Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar radio series. Johnny Dollar gets into scuba gear near Cozumel Mexico in search for treasure and a killer.

On this episode of the AFRTS series Turn Back The Clock , Andy Mansfield features the music of Artie Shaw from the Big Band Era. Artie Shaw (born Arthur Jacob Arshawsky; May 23, 1910 – December 30, 2004) was an American clarinetist, composer, bandleader, actor and author of both fiction and non-fiction. Widely regarded as "one of jazz's finest clarinetists", Shaw led one of the United States' most...

Episode 34 aired January 3, 1943. A gripping story about the spineless son of a District Attorney.

Balance of a reading of an article about the Lone Ranger's horse Silver.

The Saint travels out west to help a beautiful blonde with her new silver mine.

"The man who’ll fill your musical bill…Bill Stewart was a KLAC Los Angeles disc jockey in the 1960's. On his "Bill Stewart Show" he produced and announced more than 4,000 programs, many over AFRTS. When he was discharged from the army in November 1947 he continued his AFRTS programs while working on KLAC. His shows were heard on Armed Forces Radio Service for nearly 50 years. Stewart was born in N...

January 7, 1951 Based on events of August 27, 1938. A dead body is found in a duffle bag in an empty freight car. 

Episode 121 aired December 14, 1944 on CBS Radio Network. Starring Robert Montgomery. A couple suspects that their lodger is really "The Avenger," a homicidal maniac. In 1888, London is terrorized by the fifth in a succession of recent murders.

STAN FREBERG PRESENTS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Ben Franklin discusses discovery of electricity, in stereo.

Episode 24 aired March 7, 1954 on NBC Radio Network. James Stewart rode the radio range from September 20, 1953, through June 24, 1954, as Britt Ponset. Two bandits hit on Britt who is mistaken for someone else resulting in a few minutes of gunplay.

September 4, 1952 -  A gang of bandits is trying to find one steer in a herd. It has a fortune in stolen diamonds hidden in a hollowed horn.

Episode 14 aired on the CBS Radio Network on Sunday evening October 13, 1957. The Stan Freberg Show was a weekly radio comedy show that ran on the CBS Radio Network for fifteen episodes in 1957 from July 14 through October 20. The show, starring comedian Stan Freberg and featuring the vocal talents of Daws Butler, June Foray and Peter Leeds, Peggy Taylor as the resident singer, and the musical dir...

Aired April 8, 1947. Richard Kollmar stars. Blackie and the cops find the body of one of the wealthy Rodgers sisters in their junk-filled house. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Blackie

Episode 4 aired February 27, 1950 on NBC Radio. Joan Banks stars Randy Stone, played by Frank Lovejoy, meets Fran Fowler in the park. She's a nightclub singer with a serious problem. Joan Banks (October 30, 1918 – January 18, 1998) was an American film, television, stage, and radio actress (described as "a soapbox queen"), who often appeared in dramas with her husband, Frank Lovejoy.   https:...

Excerpt from an NBC Radio broadcast on December 7, 1941. Hans von Kaltenborn (July 9, 1878 – June 14, 1965), generally known as H. V. Kaltenborn, was an American radio commentator. He was heard regularly on the radio for over 30 years, beginning with CBS in 1928 and NBC in 1940. He was known for his highly precise diction, his ability to ad-lib, and his depth of knowledge of world affairs. Kaltenb...

Aired August 8, 1956 an encapsulated highlights of NBC radio shows on the evening of Friday, March 4, 1938. Featuring Amos N' Andy with Walter Huston, Frank Black's Orchestra, Los Angeles rainstorm news, Abe Lyman's Waltz Time, Jimmy Fiddler From Hollywood and a big band radio remote with the Blue Barron Orchestra.

This audio excerpt of MONITOR is from the 1956 first anniversary broadcast. When Monitor began on June 12, 1955 at 4pm, the first hour of the program was simulcast on NBC-TV. That initial June 12 broadcast lasted eight hours, from 4pm through 12 midnight. Following the Monitor beacon, Morgan Beatty was the first voice ever heard on Monitor. After an introduction by Pat Weaver, news headlines by Da...

Episode 2812 aired January 24, 1951. "Tonto" voiced regularly by John Todd replaced on this episode.  The Apaches plan to attack an army wagon train carrying money and supplies for the settlers, with the help of evil white men. Early profile photo of Brace Beemer, radio's most popular voice of The Lone Ranger.

Episode 11, September 12, 1950. Martha Britt is a school teacher for the Indians and tries to prevent a second Comanche war.  The Nescalosa plains stretch to the horizon and the Squat settlement is in the center of those pine covered hills of the Indian reservation and far in the distance beyond the white sands of the desert is the flat top tableland called Red Rock Mesa. Hoppy and California...

Episode 12 aired March 2, 1951 on CBS Radio. Hear It Now, an American radio program on CBS, began on December 15, 1950, ending in June 1951. It was hosted by Edward R. Murrow and produced by Murrow and Fred W. Friendly. It ran for one hour on Fridays at 9 pm Eastern Time.

WMAQ, Chicago aircheck The Bob Arbogast Show evening of November 1, 1951. The Arbogast program contained comedy and satire on WMAQ from 1951-54, he went on to become a writer and voice-over performer on the West Coast. He was born April 1,  1927. He died March 21, 2009 at age 81.

Episode 25 aired on CBS Radio May 10, 1959. Starring John Dehner. Paladin wants to retrieve a church's holy relic from a poverty-stricken rancher.