Radio Drama · Old Time Radio Researchers
Destination Freedom
- Heard
- 1948–1951
- Episodes
- 126
DESTINATION FREEDOM
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Destination Freedom (1948) Brian Kavanaugh Destination Freedom is perhaps the best-known Black old-time radio series, despite only airing on Chicago’s WMAQ and never being fully sponsored throughout its duration. This is in part due to transcription disks for three-quarters of the episodes being discovered in the early 1980s and circulated among old-time radio fans, which helped inspire additional interest and research into the show. However, the powerful – and radical, particularly for the times – storytelling of Richard Durham, combined with the quality ensemble performing these episodes make them well worth revisiting. This is the Single Episodes Page. The Maintained Set includes extras not found here. It is located here. This Single Episodes page is provided in case you want to sample the shows. Note that in many cases, file names have been modified from the original OTRR names to conform to archive.org naming requirements.
Episodes, in broadcast order page 1 of 2
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The archive items its episodes are played from, best first, with each one’s rights as its archive states them. An episode two sets both hold is played from the first.
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OTRR Destination Freedom Singles
the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.
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Destination Freedom
Uploader’s mark: Public domain (Creative Commons dedication): Marked Public domain (Creative Commons dedication) by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it.
A set by the Old Time Radio Researchers Group (otrr.org), at the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio collection.
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