Radio Drama

WWII Era Audio Recordings

Broadcasts from the World War II years: news, commentary and speeches, gathered year by year.

From WWII Era Audio Recordings at the Internet Archive.

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1944 Radio News

1944

1945 Radio News

1945

1940 Radio News

1940

1941 Radio News

1941

1943 Radio News

1942–1943

1942 Radio News

1942

Words at War

NBC · 1943–1945

Zero Hour

1973–1974

1930-1937 Radio News

1924–1948

1970-1979 Radio News

1970–1984

1939 Radio News

1939

1950-1959 Radio News

1950–1959

1960-1969 Radio News

1960–1969

AFRS Jubilee

AFRS · 1943–1952

100 OTR Thanksgiving Holiday

1935–1975

AFRS G.I. Jive

AFRS · 1943–1950

AFRS One Night Stand

AFRS · 1943–1964

1938 Radio News

1938

1947 Radio News

1947

Europe Confidential

1957

1946 Radio News

1946

The Voice of The Army

1944–1950

1948 Radio News

1948

What Are We Fighting For?

1942

1949 Radio News

1949

Marian Anderson Performs On The Steps Of The Lincoln Memorial, With An Introduction By Harold Ickes

1939

AFRS Proudly We Hail

AFRS · 1949–1957

1944 Esquire All-American Jazz Concert

NBC Blue · 1944

Speaking of Liberty

NBC · 1941

AFRS Jill's All-Time Jukebox

WWII Era Audio Recordings

Seabiscuit Horse Races

1937–1940

Marches

1943–1948

Jack Benny USO Show Cairo Egypt

AFRS · 1943

News Flash Describing The Japanese Attack On Pearl Harbor

1941

America Looks Abroad

NBC · 1940–1941

Vox Pop

1939–1948

Berlin Broadcast to Allied Forces

1944

German American Bund Rally Address By Its Leader Fritz Kuhn

1939

Kentucky Derby Broadcasts

1940–1954

Adolf Hitler's Address on the Sudeten Germans

1938

The Eisenhower Years

1961–1970

Franklin Roosevelt's Fireside Chat After Germany's Invasion Of Poland

1939

German Radio Broadcast "Berlin to North America"

1941

Esquire's 1946 All-American Jazz Band Concert

1946

Radio Report to the Nation on the Dropping of the Atomic Bomb

1945

Address By Madame Chiang To Congress

1943

Jim Hawthorne's The Hawthorne Thing & Promos

WWII Era Audio Recordings

We Will Never Die: Ben Hecht & Kurt Weill

1944

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.