Radio Drama · Old Time Radio

Lives Of Great Men

Heard
1938–1939
Episodes
26

[Updated 6/26/20 to add 7 new episodes]

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This upload contains 26 episode of the Old Time Radio program, the Lives of Great Men. This educational biography program aired from 1938-1939 and provides an interesting look at some of the great men in history.

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Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. Theodoric the Great

    · No. 3 · 15 min

  2. St. Francis of Assisi

    · No. 4 · 15 min

  3. Dante Alighieri

    · No. 5 · 14 min

  4. Girolamo Savanarola

    · No. 6 · 14 min

  5. Leonardo da Vinci

    · No. 7 · 14 min

  6. Desiderius Erasmus

    · No. 8 · 14 min

  7. Giordano Bruno

    · No. 9 · 15 min

  8. William Shakespeare

    · No. 10 · 14 min

  9. Baruch Spinoza

    · No. 11 · 14 min

  10. Goethe

    · No. 14 · 14 min

  11. Thomas Jefferson

    · No. 16 · 14 min

  12. Hamilton: The Making of Our Government

    · No. 17 · 14 min

  13. Thomas Carlyle

    · No. 19 · 15 min

  14. Ralph Waldo Emerson

    · No. 20 · 14 min

  15. Robert E. Lee

    · No. 21 · 14 min

  16. Abraham Lincoln

    · No. 23 · 16 min

  17. Robert Browning

    · No. 24 · 15 min

  18. Leo Tolstoy

    · No. 25 · 15 min

  19. Henrik Ibsen

    · No. 26 · 14 min

  20. Woodrow Wilson

    · No. 27 · 15 min

  21. Rudyard Kipling

    · No. 28 · 14 min

  22. Pierre Loti

    · No. 29 · 14 min

  23. Yeats And Poetry of Ireland

    · No. 30 · 15 min

  24. Chesterton

    · No. 31 · 15 min

  25. Life of Walt Whitman

    · No. 32 · 15 min

  26. Life of Edwin Markham

    · No. 33 · 14 min

Where it comes from 1

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.

  1. Lives Of Great Men - 26 episodes of the Old Time Radio show

    Old Time Radio · 26 episodes here · archive.org

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