The run
- Network
- Networks
- Years active
- 1930–1955
- Surviving broadcasts
- 81
- Genre
- music
Close-harmony gospel from one of the great American vocal groups, recorded for broadcast. 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
20 dated broadcasts across 97 years on the air, with 95 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 Last Train Out · 21 Jan 2025
- 2. Night Broadcast · 28 Jan 2025
- 3. The Case of the Missing Hour · 4 Feb 2025
The Last Train Out
4 Aug 2026 · 52 min
The one everybody argues about.
Signal at Midnight
28 Jul 2026 · 15 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
A Room Above the Street
21 Jul 2026 · 30 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
The Long Silence
14 Jul 2026 · 45 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
Dead Air
7 Jul 2026 · 1h 0m
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Sign Off
30 Jun 2026 · 23 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
The Case of the Missing Hour
23 Jun 2026 · 38 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
Night Broadcast
16 Jun 2026 · 53 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
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