Radio Reader's Digest
CBS
CBS · 1942–1948
Broadcasts
72
Cadence
Fortnightly
Rated
PG
Since
1942
The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1942–1948
- Surviving broadcasts
- 72
- Genre
- anthology
Radio Reader's Digest was broadcast on CBS from 1942 to 1948, sponsored by the Hallmark greeting-card company and later by Campbell. Each week the programme dramatised articles and stories drawn from Reader's Digest magazine, with Richard Kollmar and later Conrad Nagel as host. The surviving transfers here are public domain and stream 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
8 dated broadcasts across 7 years on the air, with 3 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 1943, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Doctor of Lennox · 14 Mar 1943
- 2. Two for a Penny · 25 Apr 1943
- 3. And So They Married · 6 Feb 1944
- 01
The Doctor of Lennox
14 Mar 1943 · 31 min
- 02
Two for a Penny
25 Apr 1943 · 27 min
- 03
And So They Married
6 Feb 1944 · 28 min
- 04
Husband to the Month of May
19 Sep 1946 · 29 min
- 05
Mr Cugat Takes Sick
24 Oct 1946 · 28 min
- 06
Two For A Penny
31 Oct 1946 · 27 min
- 07
Murder In The Big Bowl
7 Nov 1946 · 28 min
- 08
Husband To The Month Of May
14 Nov 1946 · 29 min
Same night on the air
6 Feb 1944
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 6 Feb 1944.
Also on CBS
CBS in 1942–1948
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anthology on the air then
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