CBS
CBS · 1942–1948
Broadcasts
72
Cadence
Fortnightly
Rated
PG
Since
1942
The run
Radio Reader's Digest was broadcast on CBS from 1942 to 1948, sponsored by the Hallmark greeting-card company and later by Campbell. Each week the programme dramatised articles and stories drawn from Reader's Digest magazine, with Richard Kollmar and later Conrad Nagel as host. The surviving transfers here are public domain and stream from the Internet Archive.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
8 dated broadcasts across 7 years on the air, with 3 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Restored broadcasts from 1943, in original transmission order.
14 Mar 1943 · 31 min
25 Apr 1943 · 27 min
6 Feb 1944 · 28 min
19 Sep 1946 · 29 min
24 Oct 1946 · 28 min
31 Oct 1946 · 27 min
7 Nov 1946 · 28 min
14 Nov 1946 · 29 min
Same night on the air
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 6 Feb 1944.
6 February
1944
Syndicated
Sunday
24 min
Originally broadcast in syndication, 6 February 1944. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Internet ArchiveOTRR_American_History_SinglesRough but complete · 32 kbps
6 February
1944
NBC
Sunday
28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 6 February 1944.
Internet ArchiveOtrr_The_Great_Gildersleeve_SinglesRough but complete · 32 kbps
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