The run
- Network
- NBC Blue
- Years active
- 1940–1942
- Surviving broadcasts
- 35
- Genre
- talk
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Behind_The_Mike”; these recordings are in the public domain.
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
6 dated broadcasts across 3 years on the air, with 1 year 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 1940, in original transmission order.
- 1. First Episode · 15 Sep 1940
- 2. Warming Up A Studio Audience · 22 Sep 1940
- 3. Versitile Acting · 6 Oct 1940
- 01
First Episode
15 Sep 1940 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
Warming Up A Studio Audience
22 Sep 1940 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
Versitile Acting
6 Oct 1940 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
Sundown On The Veldt
13 Oct 1940 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
Stoogedom
27 Oct 1940 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
Making A Living By Dying
17 Nov 1940 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
War News Mistakes
1 Dec 1940 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
Radio's Dramatic Actresses
15 Dec 1940 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on NBC Blue
NBC Blue in 1940–1942
Other series the network carried while Behind The Mike was on the air.
Same seasons
talk on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The roundtable of experts
Put clever people around one microphone, give them a question from a listener, and let the disagreement be the entertainment. Information Please and Town Meeting invented the format.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Behind The Mike
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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