The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1947–1947
- Surviving broadcasts
- 12
- Genre
- documentary
Norman Corwin circled the postwar globe with a recorder and came back with the best documentary radio America made. Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive, harvested from the Old Time Radio Researchers collections and indexed episode by episode.
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
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
4 dated broadcasts across 80 years on the air, with 79 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 · 19 May 2026
- 2. The Case of the Missing Hour · 26 May 2026
- 3. Sign Off · 2 Jun 2026
Dead Air
4 Aug 2026 · 48 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
Sign Off
28 Jul 2026 · 1h 3m
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
The Case of the Missing Hour
21 Jul 2026 · 26 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
Night Broadcast
14 Jul 2026 · 41 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
The Last Train Out
7 Jul 2026 · 56 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
Signal at Midnight
30 Jun 2026 · 19 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
A Room Above the Street
23 Jun 2026 · 34 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
The Long Silence
16 Jun 2026 · 49 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
Also on CBS
CBS in 1947–1947
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