WWII News and Related Sound Files
Networks
Networks · 1932–1946
914 EpisodesTwice weeklyPGSince 1932
The run
- Network
- Networks
- Years active
- 1932–1946
- Surviving broadcasts
- 914
- Genre
- news
Raw war coverage as it went out: bulletins, communiqués and correspondents' spots, filed year by year from 1939 to the surrender. 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
93 dated broadcasts across 95 years on the air, with 86 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 2024, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Long Silence · 19 Nov 2024
- 2. A Room Above the Street · 26 Nov 2024
- 3. Signal at Midnight · 3 Dec 2024
A Room Above the Street
4 Aug 2026 · 38 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
The Long Silence
28 Jul 2026 · 53 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Dead Air
21 Jul 2026 · 16 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
Sign Off
14 Jul 2026 · 31 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
The Case of the Missing Hour
7 Jul 2026 · 46 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
Night Broadcast
30 Jun 2026 · 1h 1m
Short, complete and unexpectedly devastating.
The Last Train Out
23 Jun 2026 · 24 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
Signal at Midnight
16 Jun 2026 · 39 min
A quiet beginning that turns, halfway through, into something else entirely.
Also on Networks
Networks in 1932–1946
Other series the network carried while WWII News and Related Sound Files was on the air.
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news on the air then
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What it became
The broadcast desk
Wartime correspondence and Cavalcade of America established the daily explainer and the narrated history hour long before either had a feed.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
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