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Redbook Dramas

Heard
1932
Episodes
19

REDBOOK DRAMAS

More about it

This series, based upon short stories originally published in Redbook Magazine, was aired in the year 1932. The United States was then in the grip of the Great Depression, and several of the episodes reflect that phenomenon. "He Knew Women" and "Kiss and Jail," for example, feature families which have been devastated by the stock market crash and its aftermath. As if to counteract the country's grim circumstances, however, many of the stories offer "love, mystery, adventure, romance" in sometimes exotic settings. Listeners are transported to such places as Yucatan, France, Dalmatia and Manchuria and encounter some remarkable characters and circumstances along the way. These include a surly Army private who gets in trouble when his pet goat butts a brigadier general into a mud puddle

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. Anything You Want Is Yours

    · No. 1 · 14 min

  2. He Knew Women

    · No. 2 · 13 min

  3. The No Man

    · No. 3 · 14 min

  4. A Pass to Pekin

    · No. 4 · 14 min

  5. The Kid

    · No. 5 · 13 min

  6. The Goat of Private Hibbs

    · No. 6 · 14 min

  7. Tribal Law

    · No. 7 · 14 min

  8. Zhulie

    · No. 8 · 13 min

  9. The Officer and the Gent

    · No. 9 · 14 min

  10. Kiss and Jail

    · No. 10 · 14 min

  11. Under the Midnight Sun

    · No. 11 · 15 min

  12. A Gent Passes By

    · No. 12 · 14 min

  13. You Have to Have Something

    · No. 13 · 15 min

  14. Hate and Twenty Cents

    · No. 14 · 14 min

  15. England Yet Shall Stand

    · No. 20 · 14 min

  16. Night Watch

    · No. 21 · 13 min

  17. Minister Wanted

    · No. 22 · 14 min

  18. Ever So Slightly Careless

    · No. 23 · 14 min

  19. Lazy Bones(Last Episode)

    · No. 24 · 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. Redbook Dramas - Single Episodes

    Old Time Radio Researchers · Old Time Radio Researchers Group · 19 episodes here · archive.org

    CC BY-NC-ND 3.0: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0, as its uploader states it at the Internet Archive.

A set by the Old Time Radio Researchers Group (otrr.org), at the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio collection.

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