The run
- Network
- CBS / AFRS
- Years active
- 1940–1942
- Surviving broadcasts
- 52
- Genre
- music
Miller's band on the air in its last civilian years, before the uniform and the missing aeroplane. 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
13 dated broadcasts across 87 years on the air, with 85 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 2025, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Long Silence · 12 Aug 2025
- 2. A Room Above the Street · 19 Aug 2025
- 3. Signal at Midnight · 26 Aug 2025
The Last Train Out
4 Aug 2026 · 36 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Signal at Midnight
28 Jul 2026 · 51 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
A Room Above the Street
21 Jul 2026 · 14 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
The Long Silence
14 Jul 2026 · 29 min
The one everybody argues about.
Dead Air
7 Jul 2026 · 44 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
Sign Off
30 Jun 2026 · 59 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
The Case of the Missing Hour
23 Jun 2026 · 22 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
Night Broadcast
16 Jun 2026 · 37 min
The one everybody argues about.
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