The World War 2 Radio Podcast

This week we have a 1942 episode of Treasury Star Parade, The Modern Scrooge, starring Lionel Barrymore and Fredric March. 

This week we have a special Thanksgiving episode from the Abbott & Costello Show. Turkey Dinner was first broadcast in 1943. Besides featuring legendary comics Bud Abbott & Lou Costello, guest stars …

This week, we have the November 17, 1940, episode of CBS’s The World Today, offering news updates from Washington and Europe.

This week, we have an episode of Words at War, Lend-Lease, Weapon for Victory, first broadcast on May 23, 1944.

This week, we have an episode of the classic radio series Escape: Flood on the Goodwins, originally broadcast on November 1, 1949. Flood on the Goodwins tells the story of a British fishing boat hija…

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This week, we have an episode of America Looks Abroad, first broadcast on October 27, 1940. This NBC production from the Foreign Policy Association emphasizes the importance of America preparing its …

This week, our episode features two segments. The first is a portion of then-Princess Elizabeth’s address to the children of the British commonwealth on Oct. 13, 1940. It was the future queen’s first…

This week, we have an episode of Words at War, an NBC anthology series that ran from 1943 to 1945. It was produced in cooperation with the Council on Books in Wartime and presented dramatizations of …

This week, we have an episode of the classic radio series Escape.  Escape ran on CBS from 1947 to 1954. Although it didn’t come on the air until after the end of World War II, many of its episodes to…

This week, we have an episode of America Looks Abroad. This NBC production covers the September 27, 1940, signing of the Tripartite Pact by Germany, Japan and Italy, creating what would eventually be…

This week, our episode features three segments. The first is a brief portion of J. Edgar Hoover’s speech of Sept. 23, 1940, to the American Legion in Boston, warning of the danger of fifth columnists…

This week, our episode features two segments. The first is a brief segment from the BBC reporting on the air raids over London from Sept. 15, 1940. Our second segment is a 1940 episode of The Lone Ra…

This week, we’re featuring Time on my Hands, an episode of Suspense. This episode aired on Sept. 25, 1960, but takes place in 1939, on the eve of World War II. It tells the story of a young couple wh…

The goal of this podcast is to deliver radio broadcasts as you would have heard them 80 years ago, during the days of World War 2. From Sept. 2, 1940: the first segment is a news update from Elmer Da…

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The goal of this podcast is to deliver radio broadcasts as you would have heard them 80 years ago, during the days of World War 2. This week, our episode features “London After Dark” as broadcast on …

The goal of this podcast is to deliver radio broadcasts as you would have heard them 80 years ago, during the days of World War 2. The first segment is a portion of Winston Churchill’s Aug. 20, 1940,…