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Last seen playing: Suspense — The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gillman (OTR, PD)

Historyradio.org is a free educational stream based in Norway that broadcasts classic radio drama, literature, and talk programming drawn largely from the golden age of radio. The station plays restored broadcasts and dramatizations spanning decades—NBC Theater's adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, Studio One's production of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People, and public domain stories like Sapper's Bulldog Drummond series sit alongside archival discussions such as Town Meeting of the Air's 1940 debate on compulsory health insurance. The programming combines old time radio, dramatic readings, and educational content suited to listeners interested in literary adaptation, broadcast history, and spoken-word storytelling from an earlier era.

Top 50 tracks of 667

Artist	Song title		Like / Dislike
"Introduction to Were-Wolves in Folklore"	"The Other Side" by Count S. E. Stenbock
1936 radio debate	Will The Machine Dominate Man?
A Biography in Sound	George Bernard Shaw (OTR, PD)
A Biography in Sound	President Woodrow Wilson (OTR, PD)
A Biography in Sound	The 1930 Nobel Laureate: Sinclair Lewis (OTR, PD)
A.E.W. Mason	Inspector Hanaud and the Ginger King
Achive.org	Interviews with Philippine Internees 1945 (PD)
Alexander Hammid	Who's Right in the Carson Marriage? (PD)
Alexander Kielland	A Tale of the Sea (PD)
Alexander Woolcott's The Town Crier	1913, the year before the great war (OTR)(PD)
Alexandre Dumas	"Solange" (w biographical intro) (PD)
Alfred George Gardiner	The Kaiser (written 1914)(PD)
Amalie Skram (1846-1905)	"Karen's Christmas" (PD)
Ambrose Bierce	"Moxon’s Master"
Ambrose Bierce	A Bottomless Grave (PD)
America Looks Abroad, 1940	The British Empire Under Fire (OTR, PD)
American Council for the Relief of Palestinians	Palestine 1950 (CC)
American Novels	Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow (PD)
American Town Hall of the Air	1938 live debate on democracies & dictatorships (OTR, BP)
An old legend	Beowulf (PD)
Andrew Carnegie	Meeting Kaiser Vilhelm II (PD)
Angus Wallace	Douglas MacArthur (BP)
Angus Wallace	WW2 podcast, Operation Tonga (BP)
Anna Katharine Green	"A Memorable Night" (PD)
Anonymous	Four Sailors Stranded on Spitsbergen 1743 (PD)
Archive.org	1951 year in Review
Arthur Conan Doyle	"Professor Challenger: the Disintegration Machine" (PD)
Arthur Conan Doyle	Professor Challenger, When the World Screamed (PD)
Arthur Conan Doyle	Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet (PD)
Arthur Conan Doyle	Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor (PD)
Arthur Conan Doyle	Sherlock Holmes, The Five Orange Pips (PD)
Arthur Fields	It's a long way to Berlin, but we'll get there (1918 song)(PD)
Arthur Hopkins Presents	Anna Christie, by Eugene O'Neill̈́
Arthur Leo Zagat	"D, My Name is Death" (PD, AI)
Arthur Morrison	The Red Cow Anarchists (PD)
Arthur W. Ryder	Kalidasa, the Shakespeare of Ancient India (PD, AI)
Author Meets The Critic	Wavery Root defends "The Secret History of the War" (OTR)
Author Meets The Critics, 1949	A discussion on Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944)
Battle Stations	The air arm in world war II,1943 (OTR, PD)
Battle Stations	The eastern sea frontier,1943 (OTR, PD)
Battle Stations	The Navy's Air Arm,1943 (OTR, PD)
Bayard Veiller (1869-1943)	Castle Playhouse, The Trial Of Mary Dugan (PD, OTR)
Bessie Smith	Poor Man's Blues (PD, 1927)
Best Plays	The Petrified Forest by R. Sherwood (1896-1955) (OTR, PD)
Best Plays	The Philadelphia Story, by Phillip Barry (OTR, PD)
Between the Bookends, 1945	Book of Letters From Servicemen (OTR, PD)
Beyond Victory	On the Tehran Conference 1943 (OTR, PD)
Billy Jones & Ernest Hare	Mr. Hoover and Mr. Smith (PD song, 1928)
Biography in Sound	A Portrait of 1950s scifi (OTR, PD)
Biography in Sound	Ernest Hemingway (OTR, PD)