Transmission
24 October
No. 1
1954
Biography in Sound
Sigmond Romburg
Running time
58 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
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Biography in Sound
1954–1958
Biography in Sound
79 surviving broadcasts held in the archive
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”; these recordings are in the public domain.
Source collection: Biography_in_Sound
The surviving run
Transmission
28 November
No. 2
1954
Biography in Sound
Winston Churchill
Running time
51 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
19 December
No. 3
1954
Biography in Sound
Ernest Hemingway
Running time
53 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
16 January
No. 4
1955
Biography in Sound
Show Biz
Running time
54 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
23 January
No. 5
1955
Biography in Sound
Gertrude Lawrence
Running time
54 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
20 February
No. 6
1955
Biography in Sound
Carl Sandburg
Running time
54 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
6 March
No. 7
1955
Biography in Sound
The Actor
Running time
54 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
13 March
No. 8
1955
Biography in Sound
Stan Kenton
Running time
54 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
20 March
No. 9
1955
Biography in Sound
Ethel Barrymore
Running time
54 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
3 April
No. 10
1955
Biography in Sound
Ernest Hemingway
Running time
54 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
10 April
No. 11
1955
Biography in Sound
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Running time
54 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
17 April
No. 12
1955
Biography in Sound
Leo Durocher
Running time
54 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
15 May
No. 13
1955
Biography in Sound
George Bernard Shaw
Running time
54 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
29 May
No. 14
1955
Biography in Sound
Carl Sandburg
Running time
54 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
5 June
No. 15
1955
Biography in Sound
Stan Kenton
Running time
54 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
14 June
No. 16
1955
Biography in Sound
Gertrude Lawrence
Running time
54 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
28 June
No. 17
1955
Biography in Sound
F Scott Fitzgerald
Running time
54 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
5 July
No. 18
1955
Biography in Sound
George Washington
Running time
59 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
12 July
No. 19
1955
Biography in Sound
John L Lewis
Running time
54 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
26 July
No. 20
1955
Biography in Sound
Rhythm
Running time
58 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
9 August
No. 21
1955
Biography in Sound
The Atom
Running time
56 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
16 August
No. 22
1955
Biography in Sound
Babe Ruth
Running time
53 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
30 August
No. 23
1955
Biography in Sound
The Serious George Gershwin
Running time
51 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
13 September
No. 24
1955
Biography in Sound
Clarence Darrow
Running time
56 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
27 September
No. 25
1955
Biography in Sound
Franklin P Adams
Running time
53 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
1 November
No. 26
1955
Biography in Sound
Thomas Wolfe
Running time
58 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
29 November
No. 27
1955
Biography in Sound
Jerome Kern
Running time
53 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
27 December
No. 28
1955
Biography in Sound
Albert Schweitzer
Running time
49 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
24 January
No. 29
1956
Biography in Sound
John Golden
Running time
59 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
14 February
No. 30
1956
Biography in Sound
Grantland Rice
Running time
57 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
21 February
No. 31
1956
Biography in Sound
George Washington
Running time
54 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
28 February
No. 32
1956
Biography in Sound
W.C. Fields
Running time
42 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
20 March
No. 33
1956
Biography in Sound
George M Cohan
Running time
54 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
27 March
No. 34
1956
Biography in Sound
Thornton Wilder
Running time
55 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
10 April
No. 35
1956
Biography in Sound
Connie Mack
Running time
58 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
24 April
No. 36
1956
Biography in Sound
Sinclair Lewis
Running time
59 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
8 May
No. 37
1956
Biography in Sound
Robert Benchley
Running time
50 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
15 May
No. 38
1956
Biography in Sound
Salute To Radio
Running time
54 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
29 May
No. 39
1956
Biography in Sound
A Portrait of Fred Allen
Running time
53 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
12 June
No. 40
1956
Biography in Sound
Thomas Wolfe
Running time
59 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
26 June
No. 41
1956
Biography in Sound
Fiorello Laguardia
Running time
59 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
10 July
No. 42
1956
Biography in Sound
HL Mencken
Running time
53 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
24 July
No. 43
1956
Biography in Sound
George Bernard Shaw
Running time
54 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
7 August
No. 44
1956
Biography in Sound
Frank Lloyd Wright
Running time
53 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
14 August
No. 45
1956
Biography in Sound
Rhythm
Running time
58 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
28 August
No. 46
1956
Biography in Sound
Franklin P Adams
Running time
54 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
4 September
No. 47
1956
Biography in Sound
Grandma Moses
Running time
54 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
11 September
No. 48
1956
Biography in Sound
Knute Rockne
Running time
54 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
18 September
No. 49
1956
Biography in Sound
Clarence Darrow
Running time
56 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
25 September
No. 50
1956
Biography in Sound
WC Fields
Running time
54 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
2 October
No. 51
1956
Biography in Sound
Woodrow Wilson
Running time
51 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
16 October
No. 52
1956
Biography in Sound
Mary Martin
Running time
54 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
13 November
No. 53
1956
Biography in Sound
Alexander Wolcott, the Town Crier
Running time
50 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
27 November
No. 54
1956
Biography in Sound
John Golden
Running time
54 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
4 December
No. 55
1956
Biography in Sound
Ticket To The Moon
Running time
48 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
11 December
No. 56
1956
Biography in Sound
Robert Benchley
Running time
53 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
18 December
No. 57
1956
Biography in Sound
Fred Allen
Running time
54 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
25 December
No. 58
1956
Biography in Sound
Grandma Moses
Running time
53 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
8 January
No. 59
1957
Biography in Sound
Frank Lloyd Wright
Running time
53 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
15 January
No. 60
1957
Biography in Sound
Fiorello Laquardia
Running time
59 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
22 January
No. 61
1957
Biography in Sound
Arturo Toscanini
Running time
52 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
29 January
No. 62
1957
Biography in Sound
Franklin Roosevelt
Running time
54 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
5 February
No. 63
1957
Biography in Sound
Thornton Wilder
Running time
55 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
19 February
No. 64
1957
Biography in Sound
F Scott Fitzgerald
Running time
54 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
5 March
No. 65
1957
Biography in Sound
George M Cohan
Running time
54 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
12 March
No. 66
1957
Biography in Sound
Grandma Moses
Running time
53 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
19 March
No. 67
1957
Biography in Sound
Ernest Hemingway
Running time
54 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
26 March
No. 68
1957
Biography in Sound
Carl Sandburg
Running time
54 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
2 April
No. 69
1957
Biography in Sound
Robert Benchley
Running time
53 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
9 April
No. 70
1957
Biography in Sound
Grantland Rice
Running time
52 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
16 April
No. 71
1957
Biography in Sound
Woodrow Wilson
Running time
51 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
23 April
No. 72
1957
Biography in Sound
Alexander Woolcott
Running time
53 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
9 July
No. 73
1957
Biography in Sound
Alben W Barkley
Running time
52 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
10 September
No. 74
1957
Biography in Sound
Danny Kaye
Running time
55 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
14 November
No. 75
1957
Biography in Sound
Theodore Roosevelt
Running time
50 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
16 January
No. 76
1958
Biography in Sound
Ernie Pyle
Running time
50 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
10 April
No. 77
1958
Biography in Sound
Eddie Rickenbacker
Running time
54 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
22 May
No. 78
1958
Biography in Sound
Clarence Darrow
Running time
56 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;
Transmission
23 October
No. 79
1958
Biography in Sound
Theodore Roosevelt
Running time
52 min
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”;