Radio · Podcasts

Radio Drama

17,707 series and 239,801 episodes of old-time radio, radio plays and historic broadcasts, in broadcast order. Each plays here from its archive and carries on as you browse; each set says what its archive says about its rights.

Drama

Anthologies, plays and serials: the stories radio told.

Comedy

Sitcoms, comedians and the variety stars of the golden age.

Mystery & crime

Detectives, policemen and suspense.

Horror & the supernatural

Ghosts, terror and the macabre.

Westerns

Cowboys, marshals and the frontier.

Science fiction & fantasy

Rockets, robots and other worlds.

More genres

Plays read by LibriVox volunteers

Public-domain plays read by LibriVox’s volunteers, as a cast or alone; they are in Books, with their chapters.

The collections

Old Time Radio Researchers

Series sets checked, dated and catalogued by the Old Time Radio Researchers Group, episode by episode in broadcast order.

Old Time Radio

The Internet Archive's Old Time Radio collection: drama, comedy, mystery and news from the golden age of radio, uploaded by collectors.

The Suspense Project

A page for each episode of Suspense, with every recording of it collectors around the world have found: network broadcasts, Armed Forces Radio Service copies, home and station airchecks.

More collections

By decade

By network

As the archives’ descriptions name them.

By language

Radio drama, old-time radio and historic broadcasts from the Internet Archive (its Old Time Radio collection with the Old Time Radio Researchers' sets, WWII Era Audio Recordings, the Pacifica Radio Archives, the Radio Haiti Archive, German radio plays and listeners' uploads), Wikimedia Commons (with the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision's broadcasts) and the Library of Congress. Every episode plays from its archive, which this site does not copy; rights are as each archive states them. Nothing here is called public domain on this site's say-so. In the United States, sound recordings first fixed before 15 February 1972 have federal protection under the Music Modernization Act of 2018, for most until 2067 at the latest, so most American radio of the 1930s to the 1950s is not in the public domain there. Each set shows the licence, mark or statement its archive gives, and says whose it is. Horror, crime, war and westerns are for teenage and adult profiles, racist caricature for adults only, and children’s profiles hear what was made for children. More about these archives.