The Golden Ageof Radio
No menus, no queue. Throw the switch and a set somewhere between 1930 and 1962 comes up warm, already halfway through whatever was on that night.
Or tune it yourself
Choose the year
7 on air
670 Kilocycles
7 signals on the band in 1947
…static… keep turning, there's a station close by.
- 118
- Series restored
- 7,230
- Broadcasts
- 39
- Networks
- 1923–1984
- Years covered
The broadcast day
What's on the air right now
A 1947 network schedule laid over the restored archive — serials after school, comedy at teatime, thriller anthologies after dark. Tune in and you join the programme already in progress, the way you would have then.
Warming the transmitter…
Eighty thousand recordings
Where do you want to start?
Card catalogue
Browse the archive
Filter 82 restored series by decade, network and genre — the kind of query the big audio apps simply don't offer.
36 series on file
Tonight on the network
1930s
Radio in the 1930s
The first great serials, live orchestras and the birth of network drama.
1940s
Radio in the 1940s
Wartime broadcasts, full-cast theatre and the peak of the anthology.
1950s
Radio in the 1950s
Radio's last golden run before television took the living room.
