The run
- Network
- AFRS
- Years active
- 1930–1955
- Surviving broadcasts
- 22
- Genre
- music
Armed Forces Radio's country hour, cut on disc and shipped to wherever the troops were. 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
6 dated broadcasts across 97 years on the air, with 96 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 2026, in original transmission order.
- 1. Night Broadcast · 10 Mar 2026
- 2. The Case of the Missing Hour · 17 Mar 2026
- 3. Sign Off · 24 Mar 2026
A Room Above the Street
4 Aug 2026 · 18 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
The Long Silence
28 Jul 2026 · 33 min
The one everybody argues about.
Dead Air
21 Jul 2026 · 48 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
Sign Off
14 Jul 2026 · 1h 3m
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
The Case of the Missing Hour
7 Jul 2026 · 26 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
Night Broadcast
30 Jun 2026 · 41 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
The Last Train Out
23 Jun 2026 · 56 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
Signal at Midnight
16 Jun 2026 · 19 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
Also on AFRS
AFRS in 1930–1955
Other series the network carried while Melody Roundup (AFRS) was on the air.
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