1944–1948 · ABC / Mutual

Land of the Lost

Everything you ever lost, at the bottom of the sea

The premise is the kind of thing only radio could carry: somewhere under the ocean is a kingdom made of everything anyone has ever lost, and a large talking fish will take you there. Isabel Manning Hewson wrote it, narrated it, and used it to smuggle in natural history and a good deal of moral instruction. It is the warmest thing in this part of the archive and a useful corrective to the assumption that children's radio meant cowboys and cereal.

34 broadcasts · 5 years held · New York

Surviving broadcasts of the children's fantasy serial written by Isabel Manning Hewson. One disc noted as cracked in the source metadata. Recordings held by the Internet Archive.