Originally broadcast on NBC, 12 January 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1950–1951
- Surviving broadcasts
- 8
- Genre
- talk
Hear It Now was broadcast by CBS from December 1950 to June 1951, hosted by Edward R. Murrow and produced with Fred W. Friendly. Built from actuality recordings gathered during the week — from Korea, from Washington, from ordinary streets — it carried the documentary method of the pair's I Can Hear It Now records onto live network radio, and became the direct template for their television series See It Now. These recordings are public domain.
1951 · 61950 · 2
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 8 of 8
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: hearitnow
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
4 dated broadcasts across 2 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1950
1951
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1950, in original transmission order.
- 1. Episode 1 · 15 Dec 1950
- 2. Episode 2 · 22 Dec 1950
- 3. Episode 5 · 12 Jan 1951
Episode 1
15 Dec 1950 · 59 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 15 December 1950. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Hear It Now collection (public domain).
Episode 2
22 Dec 1950 · 59 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 22 December 1950. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Hear It Now collection (public domain).
Episode 5
12 Jan 1951 · 59 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 12 January 1951. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Hear It Now collection (public domain).
Episode 19
20 Apr 1951 · 59 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 20 April 1951. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Hear It Now collection (public domain).
Episode 20
27 Apr 1951 · 59 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 27 April 1951. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Hear It Now collection (public domain).
Episode 22
11 May 1951 · 59 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 11 May 1951. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Hear It Now collection (public domain).
Episode 23
18 May 1951 · 59 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 18 May 1951. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Hear It Now collection (public domain).
Episode 24
25 May 1951 · 59 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 25 May 1951. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Hear It Now collection (public domain).
Same night on the air
12 Jan 1951
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 12 Jan 1951.
Originally broadcast on CBS, 12 January 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Originally broadcast on NBC, 12 January 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Originally broadcast in syndication, 12 January 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on CBS
CBS in 1950–1951
Other series the network carried while Hear It Now was on the air.
Same seasons
talk on the air then
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