Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox

Classic Radio Theater features great radio programs that warmed the hearts of millions for the better part of the 20th century. Host Wyatt Cox brings the best of radio classics back to life with both the passion of a long-time (as in more than half a century) fan and the heart of a forty-year newsman. But more than just “playing the hits”, Wyatt supplements the first hour of each day’s show with historical information on the day and date in history, including audio that takes you back to World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. FDR, Eisenhower, JFK, Reagan, Carter, Nixon, LBJ. It’s a true slice of life from not just radio’s past, but America’s past.
Wyatt produces 21 hours a week of freshly minted Classic Radio Theater presentations each week, and each day’s broadcast is timely and entertaining!

History

Update frequency: every day
Average duration: 119 minutes
Episodes: 1080
Years Active: 2023 - 2025

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Classic Radio for September 15, 2023 - Hi-FI, Water, and the Grand Canyon

A potpourri of comedies from September 15.

First the Stan Freberg show from September 15, 1957, another hi-fi lecture. The Freberg Build-It-Yourself grand piano, The fortune cookie factory, Prof. Horn…

01:01:32 | Fri 15 Sep 2023

Classic Radio for September 14, 2023 - Espionage, Spies, and Indian Blankets?

A potpourri of shows from September 14.

First, from September 14, 1951, The Lives of Harry Lime starring Orson Welles in an episode entitled Love Affair. In a remote Saudi Arabian town, Harry finds a …

01:19:55 | Thu 14 Sep 2023

Classic Radio for September 13, 2023 - Shhh...quiet please, Irma, and a Lum and Abner Road Trip

Shows and news from 75 years ago, September 13, 1948

First, Ernest Chappell scares you with an episode of Quiet Please from September 13, 1948, Symphony in D Minor. A blind hypnotist gives a post-hypn…

01:23:44 | Wed 13 Sep 2023

Classic Radio for September 12, 2023 - A Quiz Show, a Bond Drive, and a Chinese Dinner

Here's some random September 12 shows to brighten your day.

We'll start off with the Harry Hagen hosted quiz show True or False, Broadcast 85 years ago, September 12, 1938 and sponsored by Williams Sh…

01:18:24 | Tue 12 Sep 2023

Classic Radio for September 11, 2023 - 22 years later

As broadcast this morning on KELY Radio and the Nevada Talk Network, our remembrance of the events on September 11, 2001, 22 years ago.

The audio of Art Vuolo's outstanding documentary of how New Yor…

00:35:03 | Mon 11 Sep 2023

Classic Radio for September 10, 2023 - News, Lum and Abner, and Boston Blackie

News from September 10, 1946

Lum and Abner, from September 10, 1946. How is Lum going to pay for the piano he gave to the church?

Boston Blackie starring Dick Kollmar, originally broadcast September 10…

00:51:10 | Sun 10 Sep 2023

Classic Radio for September 2, 2023 By Request - News of the date, Apartment for Peggy, and Lucille Ball and the Elves

BY REQUEST - News and information on this date in history are back!

Screen Director’s Playhouse, originally broadcast September 2, 1949, Apartment for Peggy. A retired professor rents his attic apartm…

01:14:36 | Sat 02 Sep 2023

Classic Radio for September 2, 2023 - School Days, Part 2

Father Knows Best starring Robert Young, originally broadcast October 16, 1952, Bud Quits School. Bud has quit school so Mr. Anderson gives him a job as handyman.

Fibber McGee and Molly, September 6,…

01:17:50 | Sat 02 Sep 2023

Classic Radio for September 2, 2023 - School Days, Part 1

Abbott and Costello, originally broadcast March 1, 1945, Going Back to School. Guest Frank Sinatra takes another merciless ribbing about his physique. Frank, Bud, Lou and Connie Haines are back in sc…

01:10:30 | Sat 02 Sep 2023

Classic Radio for August 26, 2023 - Some very early Jack Benny

Before Jack Benny became the loveable skinflint he did in the 40's and 50's he was a much more sarcastic wiseacre in the 1930's. Though these episodes of the podcast are of less-than-ideal quality, t…

01:32:15 | Sat 26 Aug 2023

Classic Radio for August 25, 2023 - Fibber and Molly across 25 years

90 minutes of some milestone Fibber McGee and Molly programs

First, from 88 years ago, August 26, 1935, we learn how Fibber and Molly ended up with the house at 79 Wistful Vista

Next the final episode …

01:31:16 | Fri 25 Aug 2023

Classic Radio for August 20, 2023 - Tomorrow - a tale of Civil Defense

Tomorrow was a stand-alone radio program produced by ABC in 1956, in which Welles played the role of narrator. Broadcast on October 17, 1956, the program is generally described as a propaganda piece …

01:03:48 | Sun 20 Aug 2023

Classic Radio for August 19, 2023 - 1984

The NBC University Theater production of George Orwell's 1984, originally broadcast August 27, 1949. Announced as the first radio production of the story. A romance in the age of "double think." Big …

01:01:59 | Sat 19 Aug 2023

Classic Radio for August 15, 2023 - And now, the news (commentators)

A look at the way Radio and their commentators covered news in the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s. In this episode:

A portion of the 20th Century International Newsreel from February 24, 1939. Host Michael Blai…

01:04:09 | Mon 14 Aug 2023

Classic Radio for August 14, 2023 -The end of World War II

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