# Upgrades - April Heard 1942–1959. 22 episodes. OTR Upgrades - April 2023 A dozen shows, about 5 1/2 hours of old-time radio entertainment, presented as close to the original format as I can muster. Background noise reduced, chipmunking eliminated, volume no longer earsplitting. Lux Theater's Wake Island file was the most challenging, plagued with high-pitched digital artifacts ## Sets - OTR Upgrades - April 2023 (Listeners' uploads): CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as its uploader states it at the Internet Archive. Source: https://archive.org/details/otr-upgrades-april-2023 - OTR Upgrades - April 2024 (Listeners' uploads): CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as its uploader states it at the Internet Archive. Source: https://archive.org/details/otr-upgrades-april-2024 ## Episodes, in broadcast order 1. [The Mystery Singer](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/upgrades-april/8ba44b6383ae), aired 10 May 1942 (30 min): https://archive.org/download/otr-upgrades-april-2024/GreatGildersleeve_42-05-10_Mystery_Singer.mp3 1. [Wake Island with Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, Broderick Crawford](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/upgrades-april/aff575d5c40c), aired 26 October 1942 (1 h 02 min): https://archive.org/download/otr-upgrades-april-2023/LuxTheater_42-10-26_WakeIsland-mpdm.mp3 1. [Jan. 5, 1943 - Nothing Up My Sleeve, with Elissa Landi, George Couloris](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/upgrades-april/592fe3c5deca), aired 5 January 1943 (30 min): https://archive.org/download/otr-upgrades-april-2023/Suspense_01_05_43-Nothing_Up_My_Sleeve.mp3 1. [King Midas and the Golden Touch](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/upgrades-april/bdabb936e289), aired 23 January 1943 (27 min): https://archive.org/download/otr-upgrades-april-2023/Lets_Pretend_-_430123_-_King_Midas_and_the_Golden_Touch.mp3 1. [April 14, 1943 - A Quiet Evening at Home](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/upgrades-april/26f41f30df1d), aired 14 April 1943 (30 min): https://archive.org/download/otr-upgrades-april-2023/MayorOfTheTown-43.04.14-29-AQuietNightAtHome.mp3 1. [Gildy Rebuffed By Eve (100th episode)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/upgrades-april/2e8330b91287), aired 14 November 1943 (29 min): https://archive.org/download/otr-upgrades-april-2023/GreatGildersleeve_43-11-14_Gildy_Rebuffed_by_Eve.mp3 1. [Speak Ever So Gently w/Ginger Rogers](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/upgrades-april/5e73b30a90cc), aired 24 May 1944 (29 min): https://archive.org/download/otr-upgrades-april-2024/First%20Nighter%2044-05-24%20Speak%20Ever%20So%20Gently.mp3 1. [Song of the Slasher](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/upgrades-april/a995b3fad756), aired 24 April 1945 (29 min): https://archive.org/download/otr-upgrades-april-2023/Inner%20Sanctum%20%2045-04-24%20Song%20of%20the%20Slasher.mp3 1. [Fortune in Furs](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/upgrades-april/893c0cccc422), aired 20 December 1945 (29 min): https://archive.org/download/otr-upgrades-april-2023/RoguesGallery_45-12-20_AFortuneInFurs_mpdm.mp3 1. [This Love Of Ours, starring Rita Hayworth](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/upgrades-april/10fc2b1668d1), aired 4 February 1946 (58 min): https://archive.org/download/otr-upgrades-april-2024/LuxTheater_46-02-04_This_Love_of_Ours.mp3 1. [The Corpse I Didn't Kill](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/upgrades-april/0846abe4a0ab), aired 13 June 1946 (30 min): https://archive.org/download/otr-upgrades-april-2024/Rogue%27s%20Gallery%2046-06-13-The%20Corpse%20I%20Didn%27t%20Kill.mp3 1. [The Quiet Young Man](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/upgrades-april/bb231a4cbe70), aired 24 July 1948 (28 min): https://archive.org/download/otr-upgrades-april-2024/Curtain_Time_480724_Quiet_Young_Man.mp3 1. [Mrs. Parkington, with Rosalind Russell](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/upgrades-april/a832db974ed7), aired 21 October 1948 (29 min): https://archive.org/download/otr-upgrades-april-2023/HallmarkPlayhouse_MrsParkinton_481021_mpdm.mp3 1. [A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (edit)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/upgrades-april/f7707f714bde), aired 28 April 1949 (24 min): https://archive.org/download/otr-upgrades-april-2024/HallmarkPlayhouse-490428-A_Tree_Grows_in_Brooklyn.mp3 1. [School On Saturday](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/upgrades-april/9a8545586794), aired 29 January 1950 (30 min): https://archive.org/download/otr-upgrades-april-2023/Our_Miss_Brooks_500129_School_On_Saturday.mp3 1. [Rehearsing a Play](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/upgrades-april/85686a054772), aired 1 March 1951 (30 min): https://archive.org/download/otr-upgrades-april-2024/FatherKnowsBest_51-03-01-RehearsingAPlay.mp3 1. [Ethel Barrymore, Groucho Marx, Bob Hope](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/upgrades-april/d7a6610ca7b2), aired 1 April 1951 (1 h 29 min): https://archive.org/download/otr-upgrades-april-2024/Big_Show_51-04-01_Groucho_Marx_Bob_Hope.mp3 1. [Modernaires](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/upgrades-april/90b245193503), aired 6 June 1954 (14 min): https://archive.org/download/otr-upgrades-april-2023/Guest%20Star%201954-06-06_Modernaires.mp3 1. [Country Boy](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/upgrades-april/703d131186bd), aired 18 December 1957 (17 min): https://archive.org/download/otr-upgrades-april-2023/ExploringTomorrow_57-12-18_Country_Boy.mp3 1. [Charlie Meeker](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/upgrades-april/2180e38d43bc), aired 9 February 1958 (26 min): https://archive.org/download/otr-upgrades-april-2023/FrontierGentleman_58-02-09_CharlieMeeker_mpdm.mp3 1. [The Five Books Of Owen Deaver](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/upgrades-april/2db5d02b3293), aired 22 March 1959 (24 min): https://archive.org/download/otr-upgrades-april-2024/HaveGunWillTravel-59-03-22-FiveBooksOfOwenDeaver.mp3 1. [Orbit the Moon](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/upgrades-april/180e5a45eaee) (12 min): https://archive.org/download/otr-upgrades-april-2024/Planet_Man_50_02_Orbit_the_Moon.mp3 Uploaded to the Internet Archive by the person named, outside its radio collections. 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.