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1946 Radio News

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1946
Episodes
50

News from 1946.

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I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1946 news file dump. Plus some V-Discs & specials.

Any typo or error is mine.

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. AFRS Chiquita Christmas Program

    · 15 min

  2. Great Crepitation Contest of 1946 Fart Contest Record

    · 15 min

  3. Rendezvous with Destiny FDR speeches from 2-Volume 1946 NBC LP pt 1

    · 1 h 06 min

  4. Rendezvous with Destiny FDR speeches from 2-Volume 1946 NBC LP pt 2

    · 50 min

  5. Rendezvous with Destiny FDR speeches from 2-Volume 1946 NBC LP pt 3

    · 3:19

  6. V-Disc B Muggsy Spanier & His V-Disc Allstars - Squeeze Me

    · 4:34

  7. ABC Jergens Journal Walter Winchell Free Speech

    · 15 min

  8. ABC Breakfast In Hollywood Johnny Qualin

    · 31 min

  9. CBS Edward R. Murrow Leaving Britain

    · 4:42

  10. V-Disc B Roy Eldridge & his V-Discatters - Old Rob Roy

    · 3:42

  11. BBC Winston Churchill The Sinews Of Peace

    · 56 min

  12. NBC Home Is What You Make It

    · 15 min

  13. NBC Story Behind The Headlines The First Peace Time Easter

    · 14 min

  14. CBC To Canada In Style

    · 5:34

  15. WHAS Kentucky Derby Clem McCarthy

    · 2:34

  16. James Brynes On Post War Treaty Talks In Paris

    · 2:29

  17. BBC Empire Day Speech HRH Princess Elizabeth

    · 7:42

  18. CBS WBBM American Family News

    · 14 min

  19. KOMO Bob Hope Special Interview from Seattle

    · 18 min

  20. CBC Windsor tornado

    · 4:38

  21. CBS Radio's Biggest Show Walgreens' 45th Anniversary

    · 1 h 00 min

  22. WJZ Alan Prescott What To Do This Weekend

    · 14 min

  23. CBC Weather expert explains the Windsor tornado

    · 4:58

  24. ABC Forum The UN Conference

    · 27 min

  25. ABC Lear Radio Show 42 - OPA Set To End

    · 15 min

  26. ABC Lear Radio Show 45 - OPA One Year Extension

    · 14 min

  27. NBC Story Behind The Headlines The British Labour Government

    · 14 min

  28. BBC Sir Hartley Shawcross Reads Witness Accounts

    · 7:43

  29. ABC Lear Radio Show 46 - Black Veteran Blinded By Police

    · 14 min

  30. ABC Lear Radio Show 47 - Clement Attlee

    · 14 min

  31. ABC Lear Radio Show 48 - Race Relations

    · 14 min

  32. ABC Lear Radio Show 49 - Batesburg Not Aiken

    · 14 min

  33. NBC Story Behind The Headlines President Truman's Trial Balloon

    · 14 min

  34. ABC Lear Radio Show 50 - Welles Movie Banned

    · 14 min

  35. WJR CBS Country Journal

    · 29 min

  36. CBS Stars in the Afternoon review of CBS 1946 Fall Line-up

    · 1 h 28 min

  37. BBC Judgment at Nuremberg

    · 30 min

  38. Geoffrey Lawrence Sentences Göring And Hess At Nuremberg

    · 0:32

  39. BBC Huis Clos by Jean Paul Sartre

    · 1 h 02 min

  40. NBC Story Behind The Headlines The So-Called Peace Conference

    · 14 min

  41. CBS Louella Parsons Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyons

    · 15 min

  42. AFRS AFRA Workshop Night Flight Arch Oboler

    · 28 min

  43. ABC Dateline, Headline, Byline

    · 14 min

  44. ABC Jergens Journal Walter Winchell

    · 15 min

  45. AFRS Jack Benny Christmas Party At Birmingham General Hospital

    · 32 min

  46. ABC Christmas Party

    · 1 h 34 min

  47. AFRS Bob Hope From Sawtelle Veterans Hospital, California - Bing Crosby, Doris Day, General Bradley

    · 29 min

  48. NBC Christmas In America Proctor & Gamble Christmas Special

    · 59 min

  49. MBS In Review 1946 In Review

    · 1 h 04 min

  50. NBC Fred Waring New Year's Eve Party

    · 28 min

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  1. 1946 Radio News

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