NBC / CBS
NBC / CBS · 1939–1948
Broadcasts
32
Cadence
Fortnightly
Rated
PG
Since
1939
The run
Vox Pop began in 1932 as a Houston street-interview programme and ran on NBC and later CBS until 1948, broadcasting each week from a different location — a world's fair, a hospital operating room, a factory floor, a political convention. Its hosts put unrehearsed questions to whoever was standing there, making it one of radio's first sustained experiments in recording the unscripted public voice. The surviving recordings in this collection are public domain and stream from the Internet Archive.
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
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
11 dated broadcasts across 10 years on the air, with 5 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Restored broadcasts from 1939, in original transmission order.
9 Sep 1939 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 9 September 1939. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Vox Pop collection
15 Feb 1940 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 15 February 1940. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Vox Pop collection
27 Jun 1940 · 8 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 27 June 1940. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Vox Pop collection
15 Aug 1940 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 15 August 1940. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Vox Pop collection
25 Aug 1941 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 25 August 1941. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Vox Pop collection
15 Sep 1941 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 15 September 1941. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Vox Pop collection
6 Oct 1941 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 6 October 1941. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Vox Pop collection
20 Oct 1941 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 20 October 1941. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Vox Pop collection
Same night on the air
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 9 Sep 1939.
9 September
1939
Syndicated
Saturday
12 min
Originally broadcast in syndication, 9 September 1939. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Internet ArchiveSpeed_Gibson_Of_The_International_Secret_PoliceRough but complete · 32 kbps
9 September
1939
NBC
Saturday
28 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 9 September 1939.
Internet ArchiveAvalonTimeRedSkeltonCondition unmeasured
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