WWII News and Related Sound Files
Networks
Networks · 1932–1946
Broadcasts
914
Cadence
Twice weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1932
The run
- Network
- Networks
- Years active
- 1932–1946
- Surviving broadcasts
- 914
- Genre
- news
Raw war coverage as it went out: bulletins, communiqués and correspondents' spots, filed year by year from 1939 to the surrender. Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive, harvested from the Old Time Radio Researchers collections and indexed episode by episode.
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
What survives, year by year
93 dated broadcasts across 95 years on the air, with 86 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 2024, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Long Silence · 19 Nov 2024
- 2. A Room Above the Street · 26 Nov 2024
- 3. Signal at Midnight · 3 Dec 2024
- 01
A Room Above the Street
4 Aug 2026 · 38 min
- 02
The Long Silence
28 Jul 2026 · 53 min
- 03
Dead Air
21 Jul 2026 · 16 min
- 04
Sign Off
14 Jul 2026 · 31 min
- 05
The Case of the Missing Hour
7 Jul 2026 · 46 min
- 06
Night Broadcast
30 Jun 2026 · 1h 1m
- 07
The Last Train Out
23 Jun 2026 · 24 min
- 08
Signal at Midnight
16 Jun 2026 · 39 min
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