The Author Meets the Critics
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 14 November 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's The Author Meets the Critics collection (public domain).
The run
- Network
- ABC
- Years active
- 1947–1953
- Surviving broadcasts
- 21
- Genre
- docudrama
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Mister_President”; these recordings are in the public domain.
1949 · 21948 · 91947 · 1
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: Mister_President
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
7 dated broadcasts across 7 years on the air, with 4 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1947, in original transmission order.
- 1. mp · 4 Sep 1947
- 2. Mr.President 48-03-07 ep037 Warren G Harding · 7 Mar 1948
- 3. Andrew Jackson · 4 Jul 1948
- 01
mp
4 Sep 1947 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
Mr.President 48-03-07 ep037 Warren G Harding
7 Mar 1948 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
Andrew Jackson
4 Jul 1948 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
Theodore Roosevelt
7 Nov 1948 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
Woodrow Wilson
14 Nov 1948 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
James K Polk
21 Nov 1948 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
Abraham Lincoln
28 Nov 1948 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
076SH - Andrew Jackson
5 Dec 1948 · 29 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Same night on the air
14 Nov 1948
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 14 Nov 1948.
Nick Carter, Master Detective
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 14 November 1948. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
You Are There
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on ABC
ABC in 1947–1953
Other series the network carried while Mister President was on the air.
Same seasons
docudrama on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
History, dramatised
A historical event staged with actors and a narrator who insists on the date. Cavalcade of America and You Are There made the past into scenes.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
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