The Sound of War
Networks
Networks · 1930–1955
Broadcasts
18
Cadence
Twice weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1930
The run
- Network
- Networks
- Years active
- 1930–1955
- Surviving broadcasts
- 18
- Genre
- documentary
Actuality recordings from the front, assembled as documentary rather than bulletin. Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive, harvested from the Old Time Radio Researchers collections and indexed episode by episode.
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
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
5 dated broadcasts across 97 years on the air, with 96 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 2026, in original transmission order.
- 1. Sign Off · 7 Apr 2026
- 2. Dead Air · 14 Apr 2026
- 3. The Long Silence · 21 Apr 2026
- 01
Dead Air
4 Aug 2026 · 52 min
- 02
Sign Off
28 Jul 2026 · 15 min
- 03
The Case of the Missing Hour
21 Jul 2026 · 30 min
- 04
Night Broadcast
14 Jul 2026 · 45 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
- 05
The Last Train Out
7 Jul 2026 · 1h 0m
- 06
Signal at Midnight
30 Jun 2026 · 23 min
- 07
A Room Above the Street
23 Jun 2026 · 38 min
- 08
The Long Silence
16 Jun 2026 · 53 min
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