Citizen’s Court and Meatless Mondays: Short WWII Radio PSAs on Being a Good...
The date of this episode is unknown so we've filled it in with a placeholder.This episode is from the WNYC archives. It may contain language which is no longer politically or socially appropriate.“This...
View ArticleAlamo: A Radio Play
It’s the world premiere of a new radio play by Rick Moody, about the characters, stories and theories that seem to gather at the base of a big, black cube in downtown Manhattan. Featuring, among...
View ArticleOn Love and War
Meditations on two of the most powerful forces in our lives, and the ways they intersect. We’ve got a new radio play from the Naked Angels Theater Company that explores conflict in the bedroom, and...
View ArticleThe Invisible Man: An Audio Play
In the first theatrical collaboration between The Greene Space and Yorinks Theater Group, playwright Arthur Yorinks re-imagines H.G. Wells' masterpiece, The Invisible Man.Yorinks extracted the...
View ArticleThe Rat Race: An Audio Play
The Greene Space and Yorinks Theater Group presented a two-day festival celebrating the life and work of a master American storyteller: Garson Kanin.The festival featured the world premiere of the...
View ArticleA Christmas Carol: A Radio Play
Join your favorite WQXR and WNYC hosts for a performance of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, adapted by playwright Arthur Yorinks and starring Tony Award-winning actor David Hyde Pierce as...
View ArticleOn-Demand Video: A Christmas Carol - A Radio Drama
A cast of Broadway stars and public radio personalities came together live on our stage Dec. 8, lending their voices to a radio drama inspired by Charles Dickens' classic holiday tale.Written by Arthur...
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The Man Without a City
At the close of 1949 New York City was facing a serious water shortage. Previously, at this time of year, residents could depend on 253 billion gallons of water from Catskills and Croton reservoirs....
View ArticleTrip to Fraunces Tavern
The exact date of this episode is unknown. We've filled in the date above with a placeholder. What we actually have on record is: 194u-uu-uu.Written by Warren Peck and Bill Di Morrow, All Around the...
View ArticleCentral Park
The exact date of this episode is unknown. We've filled in the date above with a placeholder. What we actually have on record is: 194u-uu-uu.Warren Peck and Bill Di Morrow pick a part of New York City...
View ArticleThe Glass Man, Snap #706 - Man in the Mirror
A young girl in WWII-era England finds an unlikely friend in a stained-glass window. This radio play is adapted from Rebecca Adams-Wright’s story, The Keeper of the Glass, which is part of her debut...
View ArticleScenes from the Film I Am Twenty (Mne dvadtsat' let)
The exact date of this episode is unknown. We've filled in the date above with a placeholder. What we actually have on record is: 1965-uu-uu.This production of Radio Moscow highlights the 1965 film I...
View ArticleThe Constant Invader, Rehabilitation, Program No. 6
The date of this episode is unknown so we've filled it in with a placeholder.On this episode of The Constant Invader, fourteen year old Mary Hart is in the hospital, suffering from Tuberculosis. She...
View ArticleThe Constant Invader, Youth and TB, Program No. 5
The date of this episode is unknown so we've filled it in with a placeholder.On this episode of the The Constant Invader, Paul Harvey returns home from the hospital after a two year recovery from...
View ArticleFacts Over Fear
The date of this episode is unknown so we've filled it in with a placeholder.PO LIOMY ELITES. . 1883 Health Dept., New York State A story of Empire County, no. 1-H-lh,, Is. I6in. n.d.Dr. Walter Bell,...
View ArticleLegendary Heroes of America, Anne Hutchinson
This episode is from the WNYC archives. It may contain language which is no longer politically or socially appropriate.Audio play telling the story of Ann Hutchinson (1591 - 1643), was a settler in the...
View ArticleThe Battle of the Bulge, Program No. 12
The date of this episode is unknown so we've filled it in with a placeholder.Albert Martin is overweight and has no problem with it. His sister Nelly, in town for a visit, always seems to be on a fad...
View ArticleJohnny Starts the Wheels Turning, Program No. 13
The date of this episode is unknown so we've filled it in with a placeholder.On a hot day picking potatoes on his family's farm, 11 year old Johnny Earhart falls ill. At first his father thinks it is a...
View ArticleThe Constant Invader, X-ray Surveys, Program No. 3
This episode of The Constant Invader is narrated by Henry Fonda. The story is set in the town of Bolton where civic leaders are urging the Mayor to help pay for an x-ray survey of all citizens over the...
View ArticleThe Constant Invader, TB Among Older People - Rehabilitation, Program No. 4
This episode of The Constant Invader is narrated by Henry Fonda. The story begins at a board meeting for a sanatorium where the Director, Dr. Garwood is lobbying for funds to retain a full time...
View ArticleThe Constant Invader, Old Treatment vs. New, Program No. 8
The date of this episode is unknown so we've filled it in with a placeholder.This episode of The Constant Invader, narrated by Vincent Price, follows the story of "Dad" Parsons, an elderly man with...
View ArticleThe Constant Invader, Health Education - Individual, Program No. 12
The date of this episode is unknown so we've filled it in with a placeholder.This episode of The Constant Invader, narrated by Vincent Price, begins in the doctor's office of Dr. Carter. Jim Osgood has...
View ArticleThe Constant Invader, Schools - Health Education, Program No. 4
The date of this episode is unknown so we've filled it in with a placeholder.This episode of the Constant Invader, narrated by Ray Milland, follows Jimmy, a student reporter at the Park High School...
View ArticleThe Constant Invader, Industrial Resurveys
The date of this episode is unknown so we've filled it in with a placeholder.Tom, a machinist, finds out that his manufacturing plant is requiring all workers to have x-rays to check for Tuberculosis....
View ArticleThe Fateful Jump: a Radio Play
The exact date of this episode is unknown. We've filled in the date above with a placeholder. What we actually have on record is: 196u-uu-uu.In this radio play, produced by Radio Moscow, a man and wife...
View ArticleStage and Screen, The Irkutsk Story
The exact date of this episode is unknown. We've filled in the date above with a placeholder. What we actually have on record is: 196u-uu-uu.On this episode of Stage and Screen, Vladimir Alexeev...
View ArticleA True Story (Radio Play)
The exact date of this episode is unknown. We've filled in the date above with a placeholder. What we actually have on record is: 1964-uu-uu.This production of Radio Moscow focuses on the film...
View ArticleHeroes of the Brest Fortress
The exact date of this episode is unknown. We've filled in the date above with a placeholder. What we actually have on record is: 1964-uu-uu.This drama, produced by Radio Moscow, tells the story of a...
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The Fevered Land
The Fevered Land is an unusually frank series of sketches about racism and discrimination circa 1946 produced by WHA in Madison, Wisconsin. The vignettes highlight common stereotypes about and...
View ArticleThe Road to Grand Larceny
The story continues when Bob begins an affair with Lucille. In order to afford their dates Bob begins embezzling money through his company's stamp inventory. He tells Lucille that he has a sick mother...
View ArticleOld Merchant's Museum
Actors perform a condensed history of a family home, called the Old Merchant's House Museum (Merchant's House Museum), beginning with the first owner, Joseph Brewster. He explains his resolve to build...
View ArticleToward a Return to Society, Mr. K. Commits Welfare Fraud
This episode of Toward a Return to Society follows a Mr. K., arrested for opening a fraudulent bank account to conceal funds when applying for Home Relief (welfare). Mr. K. recounts being laid off from...
View ArticleVincent Price, Program No. 475
Sponsored by the United States Treasury Department, this episode of Guest Star features Vincent Price in a dramatic sketch called "The Grey Hat."Vincent Price plays the part of Bruce Bennett, a newly...
View ArticleSnap #707 - The Promise
On the next Snap, "The Promise." Some of them are worthless, and some of them have infinite value, and some you will never know how much they are worth... until you have to cash them in.
View ArticleRemember The Baby, Snap #707 - The Promise
This radio play is about one of those days that you have that changes you forever.It comes from our friends at The Truth Podcast, and it was commissioned by The Sarah Awards from Sarah Lawrence...
View ArticleTo Tim at Twenty
A wartime father's last letter to his son.This is the third episode of The Corwin Cycle, WNYC’s 1942 series reviving a selection of radio plays by Norman Corwin. This episode contained two short works:...
View ArticleDaybreak
This is the ninth episode of The Corwin Cycle, WNYC’s 1942 series reviving a selection of radio plays by Norman Corwin. Note: This recording is incomplete and only a fragment from the original...
View ArticleBetween Americans
"An informal program for informal people."This is an episode of The Corwin Cycle, WNYC’s 1942 series reviving a selection of radio plays by Norman Corwin. Its sequence within the series is unclear,...
View ArticleWolfeiana
A rhapsody for radio in tribute to poet Thomas Wolfe.This is an episode of The Corwin Cycle, WNYC’s 1942 series reviving a selection of radio plays by Norman Corwin. Its sequence within the series is...
View ArticleFragment from a Lost Cause
A profile of the Greek patriot, Demosthenes.This is an episode of The Corwin Cycle, WNYC’s 1942 series reviving a selection of radio plays by Norman Corwin. Its sequence within the series is unclear,...
View ArticleMurder in Studio One
This is an episode of The Corwin Cycle, WNYC’s 1942 series reviving a selection of radio plays by Norman Corwin. Its sequence within the series is unclear, though it may be the seventeenth episode.From...
View ArticleRadio Primer
This is an episode of The Corwin Cycle, WNYC’s 1942 series reviving a selection of radio plays by Norman Corwin. Its sequence within the series is unclear, though it may be the twentieth episode.Radio...
View ArticleNorman Corwin
Corwin's book, "Untitled" is a collection 17 radio scripts. All were written during World War II. Book critics John Gassner and Eugene O'Neill Jr. take him over the coals. WNYC archives id: 152495
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The McCarthys Step Out: A Police Safety Program
Some of WNYC's earliest radio drama came out of the police department safety bureau. When in the 1930s 30,000 people were falling victim to street and highway accidents each year, the story of a...
View ArticleDebates; Bush's Potty Mouth; Campaign Ads; Harry Shearer; Sound of Music;...
Do the rules for televised presidential debates really matter? Host Brian Lehrer discusses the question with historian Alan Schroeder, author of "Presidential Debates. Forty Years of High-Risk."Brian...
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