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Vox Pop

1939–1948

Vox Pop

32 surviving broadcasts held in the archive

Vox Pop began in 1932 as a Houston street-interview programme and ran on NBC and later CBS until 1948, broadcasting each week from a different location — a world's fair, a hospital operating room, a factory floor, a political convention. Its hosts put unrehearsed questions to whoever was standing there, making it one of radio's first sustained experiments in recording the unscripted public voice. The surviving recordings in this collection are public domain and stream from the Internet Archive.

Source collection: VoxPop_857

The surviving run

Transmission

9 September

No. 1

1939

NBC 280 New York World's Fair New York, New York

Running time

29 min

Vox Pop began in 1932 as a Houston street-interview programme and ran on NBC and later CBS until 1948, broadcasting each week from a different location — a world's fair, a hospital operating room, a factory floor, a political convention. Its hosts put unrehearsed questions to whoever was standing there, making it one of radio's first sustained experiments in recording the unscripted public voice. The surviving recordings in this collection areand stream from the Internet Archive.

Transmission

14 December

No. 2

1939

NBC Largest Telephone Building, New York, New York

Running time

29 min

Vox Pop began in 1932 as a Houston street-interview programme and ran on NBC and later CBS until 1948, broadcasting each week from a different location — a world's fair, a hospital operating room, a factory floor, a political convention. Its hosts put unrehearsed questions to whoever was standing there, making it one of radio's first sustained experiments in recording the unscripted public voice. The surviving recordings in this collection areand stream from the Internet Archive.

Transmission

15 February

No. 3

1940

CBS 302 Paramount Sound Stage of Seventeen Hollywood California

Running time

29 min

Vox Pop began in 1932 as a Houston street-interview programme and ran on NBC and later CBS until 1948, broadcasting each week from a different location — a world's fair, a hospital operating room, a factory floor, a political convention. Its hosts put unrehearsed questions to whoever was standing there, making it one of radio's first sustained experiments in recording the unscripted public voice. The surviving recordings in this collection areand stream from the Internet Archive.

Transmission

9 May

No. 4

1940

CBS 314 McLean Operating Room in Roosevelt Hospital New York, New York

Running time

29 min

Vox Pop began in 1932 as a Houston street-interview programme and ran on NBC and later CBS until 1948, broadcasting each week from a different location — a world's fair, a hospital operating room, a factory floor, a political convention. Its hosts put unrehearsed questions to whoever was standing there, making it one of radio's first sustained experiments in recording the unscripted public voice. The surviving recordings in this collection areand stream from the Internet Archive.

Transmission

27 June

No. 5

1940

CBS 321 Republican Convention Philadelphia, Pennsylvania clip

Running time

8 min

Vox Pop began in 1932 as a Houston street-interview programme and ran on NBC and later CBS until 1948, broadcasting each week from a different location — a world's fair, a hospital operating room, a factory floor, a political convention. Its hosts put unrehearsed questions to whoever was standing there, making it one of radio's first sustained experiments in recording the unscripted public voice. The surviving recordings in this collection areand stream from the Internet Archive.

Transmission

8 August

No. 6

1940

CBS 327 Movie Set of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

Running time

29 min

Vox Pop began in 1932 as a Houston street-interview programme and ran on NBC and later CBS until 1948, broadcasting each week from a different location — a world's fair, a hospital operating room, a factory floor, a political convention. Its hosts put unrehearsed questions to whoever was standing there, making it one of radio's first sustained experiments in recording the unscripted public voice. The surviving recordings in this collection areand stream from the Internet Archive.

Transmission

15 August

No. 7

1940

CBS Buster Crabbe, New York World's Fair

Running time

29 min

Vox Pop began in 1932 as a Houston street-interview programme and ran on NBC and later CBS until 1948, broadcasting each week from a different location — a world's fair, a hospital operating room, a factory floor, a political convention. Its hosts put unrehearsed questions to whoever was standing there, making it one of radio's first sustained experiments in recording the unscripted public voice. The surviving recordings in this collection areand stream from the Internet Archive.

Transmission

5 September

No. 8

1940

CBS Mystery Location, Burns Detective Agency Conclave

Running time

29 min

Vox Pop began in 1932 as a Houston street-interview programme and ran on NBC and later CBS until 1948, broadcasting each week from a different location — a world's fair, a hospital operating room, a factory floor, a political convention. Its hosts put unrehearsed questions to whoever was standing there, making it one of radio's first sustained experiments in recording the unscripted public voice. The surviving recordings in this collection areand stream from the Internet Archive.

Transmission

25 August

No. 9

1941

CBS Brooklyn Dodgers, St. Louis Cardinals Hotel Bossert Brooklyn, New York

Running time

29 min

Vox Pop began in 1932 as a Houston street-interview programme and ran on NBC and later CBS until 1948, broadcasting each week from a different location — a world's fair, a hospital operating room, a factory floor, a political convention. Its hosts put unrehearsed questions to whoever was standing there, making it one of radio's first sustained experiments in recording the unscripted public voice. The surviving recordings in this collection areand stream from the Internet Archive.

Transmission

1 September

No. 10

1941

CBS Indiana State Fair Indianapolis, Indiana

Running time

29 min

Vox Pop began in 1932 as a Houston street-interview programme and ran on NBC and later CBS until 1948, broadcasting each week from a different location — a world's fair, a hospital operating room, a factory floor, a political convention. Its hosts put unrehearsed questions to whoever was standing there, making it one of radio's first sustained experiments in recording the unscripted public voice. The surviving recordings in this collection areand stream from the Internet Archive.

Transmission

15 September

No. 11

1941

CBS Duke University Durham, North Carolina

Running time

29 min

Vox Pop began in 1932 as a Houston street-interview programme and ran on NBC and later CBS until 1948, broadcasting each week from a different location — a world's fair, a hospital operating room, a factory floor, a political convention. Its hosts put unrehearsed questions to whoever was standing there, making it one of radio's first sustained experiments in recording the unscripted public voice. The surviving recordings in this collection areand stream from the Internet Archive.

Transmission

22 September

No. 12

1941

CBS U.S.S. Prairie State BB-7 New York, New York

Running time

29 min

Vox Pop began in 1932 as a Houston street-interview programme and ran on NBC and later CBS until 1948, broadcasting each week from a different location — a world's fair, a hospital operating room, a factory floor, a political convention. Its hosts put unrehearsed questions to whoever was standing there, making it one of radio's first sustained experiments in recording the unscripted public voice. The surviving recordings in this collection areand stream from the Internet Archive.

Transmission

6 October

No. 13

1941

CBS University of Tennessee Knoxville, Tennessee

Running time

29 min

Vox Pop began in 1932 as a Houston street-interview programme and ran on NBC and later CBS until 1948, broadcasting each week from a different location — a world's fair, a hospital operating room, a factory floor, a political convention. Its hosts put unrehearsed questions to whoever was standing there, making it one of radio's first sustained experiments in recording the unscripted public voice. The surviving recordings in this collection areand stream from the Internet Archive.

Transmission

13 October

No. 14

1941

CBS Hangar 6 Maxwell Field Montgomery, Alabama

Running time

29 min

Vox Pop began in 1932 as a Houston street-interview programme and ran on NBC and later CBS until 1948, broadcasting each week from a different location — a world's fair, a hospital operating room, a factory floor, a political convention. Its hosts put unrehearsed questions to whoever was standing there, making it one of radio's first sustained experiments in recording the unscripted public voice. The surviving recordings in this collection areand stream from the Internet Archive.

Transmission

20 October

No. 15

1941

CBS U.S. Naval Academy Annapolis, Maryland

Running time

29 min

Vox Pop began in 1932 as a Houston street-interview programme and ran on NBC and later CBS until 1948, broadcasting each week from a different location — a world's fair, a hospital operating room, a factory floor, a political convention. Its hosts put unrehearsed questions to whoever was standing there, making it one of radio's first sustained experiments in recording the unscripted public voice. The surviving recordings in this collection areand stream from the Internet Archive.

Transmission

3 November

No. 16

1941

CBS Pheasant Hunting Capitol - Winner, South Dakota

Running time

29 min

Vox Pop began in 1932 as a Houston street-interview programme and ran on NBC and later CBS until 1948, broadcasting each week from a different location — a world's fair, a hospital operating room, a factory floor, a political convention. Its hosts put unrehearsed questions to whoever was standing there, making it one of radio's first sustained experiments in recording the unscripted public voice. The surviving recordings in this collection areand stream from the Internet Archive.

Transmission

17 November

No. 17

1941

CBS NY Military Academy Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York

Running time

27 min

Vox Pop began in 1932 as a Houston street-interview programme and ran on NBC and later CBS until 1948, broadcasting each week from a different location — a world's fair, a hospital operating room, a factory floor, a political convention. Its hosts put unrehearsed questions to whoever was standing there, making it one of radio's first sustained experiments in recording the unscripted public voice. The surviving recordings in this collection areand stream from the Internet Archive.

Transmission

24 November

No. 18

1941

CBS Notre Dame University South Bend, Indiana

Running time

29 min

Vox Pop began in 1932 as a Houston street-interview programme and ran on NBC and later CBS until 1948, broadcasting each week from a different location — a world's fair, a hospital operating room, a factory floor, a political convention. Its hosts put unrehearsed questions to whoever was standing there, making it one of radio's first sustained experiments in recording the unscripted public voice. The surviving recordings in this collection areand stream from the Internet Archive.

Transmission

29 December

No. 19

1941

CBS Air Raid Warden Defense Meeting New York, New York

Running time

29 min

Vox Pop began in 1932 as a Houston street-interview programme and ran on NBC and later CBS until 1948, broadcasting each week from a different location — a world's fair, a hospital operating room, a factory floor, a political convention. Its hosts put unrehearsed questions to whoever was standing there, making it one of radio's first sustained experiments in recording the unscripted public voice. The surviving recordings in this collection areand stream from the Internet Archive.

Transmission

5 January

No. 20

1942

CBS U.S. Marines Quantico, Virginia

Running time

29 min

Vox Pop began in 1932 as a Houston street-interview programme and ran on NBC and later CBS until 1948, broadcasting each week from a different location — a world's fair, a hospital operating room, a factory floor, a political convention. Its hosts put unrehearsed questions to whoever was standing there, making it one of radio's first sustained experiments in recording the unscripted public voice. The surviving recordings in this collection areand stream from the Internet Archive.

Transmission

12 January

No. 21

1942

CBS Army Air Corps Cadets at Randolph Field, Texas

Running time

28 min

Vox Pop began in 1932 as a Houston street-interview programme and ran on NBC and later CBS until 1948, broadcasting each week from a different location — a world's fair, a hospital operating room, a factory floor, a political convention. Its hosts put unrehearsed questions to whoever was standing there, making it one of radio's first sustained experiments in recording the unscripted public voice. The surviving recordings in this collection areand stream from the Internet Archive.

Transmission

9 November

No. 22

1942

CBS USMC 167th Birthday New River, North Carolina

Running time

29 min

Vox Pop began in 1932 as a Houston street-interview programme and ran on NBC and later CBS until 1948, broadcasting each week from a different location — a world's fair, a hospital operating room, a factory floor, a political convention. Its hosts put unrehearsed questions to whoever was standing there, making it one of radio's first sustained experiments in recording the unscripted public voice. The surviving recordings in this collection areand stream from the Internet Archive.

Transmission

15 November

No. 23

1943

CBS Penn State in Wartime State College, Pennsylvania

Running time

29 min

Vox Pop began in 1932 as a Houston street-interview programme and ran on NBC and later CBS until 1948, broadcasting each week from a different location — a world's fair, a hospital operating room, a factory floor, a political convention. Its hosts put unrehearsed questions to whoever was standing there, making it one of radio's first sustained experiments in recording the unscripted public voice. The surviving recordings in this collection areand stream from the Internet Archive.

Transmission

22 November

No. 24

1943

CBS USCG Manhattan Beach Training Center Brooklyn, New York

Running time

29 min

Vox Pop began in 1932 as a Houston street-interview programme and ran on NBC and later CBS until 1948, broadcasting each week from a different location — a world's fair, a hospital operating room, a factory floor, a political convention. Its hosts put unrehearsed questions to whoever was standing there, making it one of radio's first sustained experiments in recording the unscripted public voice. The surviving recordings in this collection areand stream from the Internet Archive.

Transmission

3 July

No. 25

1944

CBS Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation Shipyard Portland, Oregon

Running time

29 min

Vox Pop began in 1932 as a Houston street-interview programme and ran on NBC and later CBS until 1948, broadcasting each week from a different location — a world's fair, a hospital operating room, a factory floor, a political convention. Its hosts put unrehearsed questions to whoever was standing there, making it one of radio's first sustained experiments in recording the unscripted public voice. The surviving recordings in this collection areand stream from the Internet Archive.

Transmission

10 July

No. 26

1944

CBS Army Air Transport Command Hamilton Field, California

Running time

29 min

Vox Pop began in 1932 as a Houston street-interview programme and ran on NBC and later CBS until 1948, broadcasting each week from a different location — a world's fair, a hospital operating room, a factory floor, a political convention. Its hosts put unrehearsed questions to whoever was standing there, making it one of radio's first sustained experiments in recording the unscripted public voice. The surviving recordings in this collection areand stream from the Internet Archive.

Transmission

17 July

No. 27

1944

CBS Army Amphibious Forces Fort Ord, Monterey Bay, California

Running time

29 min

Vox Pop began in 1932 as a Houston street-interview programme and ran on NBC and later CBS until 1948, broadcasting each week from a different location — a world's fair, a hospital operating room, a factory floor, a political convention. Its hosts put unrehearsed questions to whoever was standing there, making it one of radio's first sustained experiments in recording the unscripted public voice. The surviving recordings in this collection areand stream from the Internet Archive.

Transmission

26 February

No. 28

1945

CBS Charleston, South Carolina Point of Embarkation USAHS Wisteria

Running time

29 min

Vox Pop began in 1932 as a Houston street-interview programme and ran on NBC and later CBS until 1948, broadcasting each week from a different location — a world's fair, a hospital operating room, a factory floor, a political convention. Its hosts put unrehearsed questions to whoever was standing there, making it one of radio's first sustained experiments in recording the unscripted public voice. The surviving recordings in this collection areand stream from the Internet Archive.

Transmission

16 July

No. 29

1945

CBS Repatriated POWs at Lake Placid Club, New York

Running time

29 min

Vox Pop began in 1932 as a Houston street-interview programme and ran on NBC and later CBS until 1948, broadcasting each week from a different location — a world's fair, a hospital operating room, a factory floor, a political convention. Its hosts put unrehearsed questions to whoever was standing there, making it one of radio's first sustained experiments in recording the unscripted public voice. The surviving recordings in this collection areand stream from the Internet Archive.

Transmission

23 July

No. 30

1945

CBS Marine Air Station, Cherry Point, North Carolina Ed Sullivan

Running time

28 min

Vox Pop began in 1932 as a Houston street-interview programme and ran on NBC and later CBS until 1948, broadcasting each week from a different location — a world's fair, a hospital operating room, a factory floor, a political convention. Its hosts put unrehearsed questions to whoever was standing there, making it one of radio's first sustained experiments in recording the unscripted public voice. The surviving recordings in this collection areand stream from the Internet Archive.

Transmission

20 August

No. 31

1945

CBS Armed Forces Radio Service AFRS HQ Hollywood, California

Running time

29 min

Vox Pop began in 1932 as a Houston street-interview programme and ran on NBC and later CBS until 1948, broadcasting each week from a different location — a world's fair, a hospital operating room, a factory floor, a political convention. Its hosts put unrehearsed questions to whoever was standing there, making it one of radio's first sustained experiments in recording the unscripted public voice. The surviving recordings in this collection areand stream from the Internet Archive.

Transmission

21 January

No. 32

1948

ABC Congressmen Richard M. Nixon, Glenn R. Davis Chattanooga, Tennessee

Running time

28 min

Vox Pop began in 1932 as a Houston street-interview programme and ran on NBC and later CBS until 1948, broadcasting each week from a different location — a world's fair, a hospital operating room, a factory floor, a political convention. Its hosts put unrehearsed questions to whoever was standing there, making it one of radio's first sustained experiments in recording the unscripted public voice. The surviving recordings in this collection areand stream from the Internet Archive.