Voices of Independent India
All India Radio
All India Radio · 1946–1952
5 EpisodesTwice weeklyPGSince 1946
The run
- Network
- All India Radio
- Years active
- 1946–1952
- Surviving broadcasts
- 5
- Genre
- news
Historical Speeches The First Servant of the Indian People Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru First Broadcast to the Nation as Prime Minister Audio Source: All India Radio Fellow Countrymen, it has been my privilege to serve India and the cause of India's freedom for many years. Today I address you for the first time officially as the First Servant of the Indian people, pledged to their service and their betterment. I am here because you willed it so and I remain here so long as you choose to honour me with your confidence. We area free and sovereign people today and we have rid ourselves of the burden of the past. We look at the world with clear and friendly eyes and at the future with faith and confi Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive.
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
2 dated broadcasts across 81 years on the air, with 80 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
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Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 2026, in original transmission order.
- 1. Dead Air · 7 Jul 2026
- 2. The Long Silence · 14 Jul 2026
- 3. A Room Above the Street · 21 Jul 2026
The Last Train Out
4 Aug 2026 · 40 min
The one everybody argues about.
Signal at Midnight
28 Jul 2026 · 55 min
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
A Room Above the Street
21 Jul 2026 · 18 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
The Long Silence
14 Jul 2026 · 33 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
Dead Air
7 Jul 2026 · 48 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
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What it became
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Wartime correspondence and Cavalcade of America established the daily explainer and the narrated history hour long before either had a feed.
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