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Old Radio Shows

Welcome to Audio Shows Step back in time with our podcast for fans of Old British and American radio shows. Audio Shows brings you comedy classics like 'The Goon Show' and gripping dramas such as 'The Shadow'. Each week, we highlight the best of vintage radio, featuring special episodes with expert interviews and behind-the-scenes stories. Join our community of enthusiasts and follow us on Twitter @AudioShows, and Facebook.
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HANCOCK'S HALF HOUR - The Diary - UK Comedy

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Nov 04, 202230 minSeason 1Ep. 1

HALLOWEEN SPECIAL!! - Murder at Midnight - The Black Swan - Mystery and Horror

The Black Swan". A ship is "launched in blood" and continues to kill. Visit our store for more Radio Shows Audioshows.e-junkie.com The classic series, Murder at Midnight , offers stories of the "witching hour, when night is darkest, our fears are the strongest, our strength at its lowest ebb -- MIDNIGHT! When the graves gape open and death strikes!" Listeners perked their ears from 1946 to 1947 old radio shows mystery and horror...

Oct 31, 202226 minSeason 1Ep. 2

HALLOWEEN SPECIAL!!!! Murder at Midnight - The Dead Hand - Thriller / Mystery

Visit Audioshows.e-junkie.com for the best Old Radio Audio Show Downloads Murder at Midnight was an old-time radio show featuring macabre tales of suspense, often with a supernatural twist. It was produced in New York and was syndicated beginning in 1946. The show's writers included Robert Newman, Joseph Ruscoll, Max Ehrlich and William Norwood, and it was directed by Anton M. Old Radio Shows OTR

Oct 31, 202226 minSeason 1Ep. 1

THE CLITHEROE KID - A Funny Thing Happened at the Fair - UK Comedy

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Oct 27, 202230 minSeason 1Ep. 1

Men From The Ministry Great Footwear Scandal - UK COMEDY

Visit our store for more Radio Shows Audioshows.e-junkie.com To Purchase the Complete collection of Take it from Here visit Audioshows.e-junkie.com The Men from the Ministry is a British radio comedy series broadcast by the BBC between 1962 and 1977, starring Wilfrid Hyde-White, Richard Murdoch and, from 1966, when he replaced Hyde-White, Deryck Guyler. Written and produced by Edward Taylor with contributions from John Graham. it ran for 13 series, totalling 145 half-hour episodes and two specia...

Oct 24, 202229 minSeason 1Ep. 1

TAKE IT FROM HERE - Ron's Will Bequest - UK COMEDY

Visit our store for more Radio Shows Audioshows.e-junkie.com To Purchase the Complete collection of Take it from Here visit Audioshows.e-junkie.com Old Radio Show Take It from Here (often referred to as TIFH, pronounced – and sometimes humorously spelt – "TIFE") was a BBC Radio comedy programme broadcast by the BBC between 1948 and 1960. It was written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden , and starred Jimmy Edwards , Dick Bentley and Joy Nichols . Classic Old Radio Show Comedy Downloads. Visit our st...

Oct 16, 202229 minSeason 1Ep. 1

THE ADVENTURES OF PHILIP MARLOWE - The Angry Eagle - DETECTIVE / CRIME

Visit our store for more Radio Shows Audioshows.e-junkie.com Philip Marlowe is a fictional character created by Raymond Chandler. Marlowe first appeared under that name in The Big Sleep, published in 1939. Chandler's early short stories, published in pulp magazines like Black Mask and Dime Detective, featured similar characters with names like "Carmady" and "John Dalmas". Classic Old Radio Show Comedy Downloads. Visit our store for more shows Audioshows.e-junkie.com We have all of the Classics a...

Oct 12, 202231 minSeason 1Ep. 1

Steptoe and Son - The Offer (Pilot Episode) - UK Comedy

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Oct 09, 202226 minSeason 1Ep. 1

THE CLITHEROE KID - One Hundred Not Out - UK Comedy

Visit our store for more shows Audioshows.e-junkie.com We have all of the Classics and More Dad's Army , Round the Horne , Take it from Here, Benny Hill , Beyond Our Ken , Navy Lark, Westerns and many many more are being added day by Day. Instant Old radio Shows for Instant Downloads. at fantastic Prices Classic Old Radio Show Comedy Downloads. The Clitheroe KID The Clitheroe Kid is a BBC radio comedy show featuring diminutive Northern comic Jimmy Clitheroe in the role of a cheeky schoolboy, who...

Jun 27, 202229 min

Crime Classics - The Sudden Death Of - Crime Radio

Visit Audioshows.e-junkie.com for the best Old Radio Audio Show Downloads Crime Classics came to CBS September 30, 1953 and was a neat little series of "true crime stories". The show introduced itself succinctly: "Crime Classics, a series of true crime stories from the records and newspapers of every land, from every time. Your host each week, Mr. Thomas Hyland -- connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders."...

Apr 11, 202229 min

NAVY LARK - The Portarneyland Fishing Limit - UK COMEDY

Visit Audioshows.e-junkie.com for the best Old Radio Audio Show Downloads The Navy Lark is a radio sitcom about life aboard a British Royal Navy frigate named HMS Troutbridge based in HMNB Portsmouth. In series 1 and 2, the ship and crew were stationed offshore at an unnamed location known simply as "The Island" Old Radio Shows UK

Apr 04, 202228 min

I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again - Operation Chocolate - UK Comedy

Visit our store for more Radio Shows Audioshows.e-junkie.com I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again STARING Tim Brooke-Taylor , John Cleese , Graeme Garden , David Hatch , Jo Kendall , Bill Oddie I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again is a BBC radio comedy programme that originated from the Cambridge University Footlights revue Cambridge Circus. It had a devoted youth following, with live recordings enjoying very lively audiences, particularly when familiar themes and characters were repeated;...

Mar 28, 202230 min

Murder at Midnight - The Heavy Death - Thriller

Visit Audioshows.e-junkie.com for the best Old Radio Audio Show Downloads Murder at Midnight was an old-time radio show featuring macabre tales of suspense, often with a supernatural twist. It was produced in New York and was syndicated beginning in 1946. The show's writers included Robert Newman, Joseph Ruscoll, Max Ehrlich and William Norwood, and it was directed by Anton M.

Mar 21, 202226 min

Life With the Lyons - Its A Wise Father - UK Comedy

Visit Audioshows.e-junkie.com for the best Old Radio Audio Show Downloads Life With the Lyons followed and, with Ben and Bebe, featured their children Richard and Barbara Lyon. Although scripted, it expanded on real-life events.The radio series premiered on 5 November 1950 and ended in 1961 was the first situation comedy in the United Kingdom. Writers included Jill Allgood, and Bob Block who created the BBC television series Rentaghost. Molly Weir was their Scottish housekeeper Aggie Macdonald, ...

Mar 14, 202228 min

HANCOCK'S HALF HOUR - Agricutural Hancock - UK Comedy

Download the Complete Tony Hancock collection https://audioshows.e-junkie.com/product/0003/Hancocks-Half-Hour-Radio-Shows (DOWNLOAD STORE) Laid up with a broken leg, the lad soon regrets a visit from Sid and Bill. Starring Tony Hancock. With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Joan Frank and Patricia Hayes. Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott. Producer: Tom Ronald...

Mar 08, 202227 min

DAD'S ARMY - BATTLE SCHOOL - UK COMEDY

Visit Audioshows.e-junkie.com for the best Old Radio Audio Show Downloads The platoon is a train ride away from weekend camp and a course in guerrilla warfare. Mainwaring is hungry and grouchy and Godfrey uncomfortable.

Feb 28, 202227 min

Much Binding in the Marsh - Baby Sitting - UK Comedy

To Purchase any of the shows please visit https://audioshows.e-junkie.com/ Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh was a comedy show broadcast from 1944 to 1954, firstly by BBC radio and subsequently Radio Luxembourg. It starred Kenneth Horne and Richard Murdoch as senior staff in a fictional RAF station battling red tape and wartime inconvenience. Over the years the station turned to non-combatant operations, became a country club and finally a newspaper, The Weekly Bind. The programme's title may have been ...

Feb 25, 202226 min

Take It From Here - The David Dunhill Murder - UK Comedy

To Purchase the Complete collection of Take it from Here visit Audioshows.e-junkie.com Old Radio Show Take It from Here (often referred to as TIFH, pronounced – and sometimes humorously spelt – "TIFE") was a BBC Radio comedy programme broadcast by the BBC between 1948 and 1960. It was written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden , and starred Jimmy Edwards , Dick Bentley and Joy Nichols ....

Feb 21, 202228 min

The Goon Show - The Stolen Postman - COMEDY UK

Visit our store for more shows Audioshows.e-junkie.com The Goon Show was a British radio show that started in 1951 and ran until 1960. It changed the face of British comedy and still maintains its influence to this day! The Goons included Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe. They burst onto the radio with surreal storylines, absurd logic, puns, catchphrases and groundbreaking sound effects. Classic Old Radio Show Comedy...

Feb 09, 202227 min

The Frankie Howerd Show - UK Comedy

Visit our store for more shows Audioshows.e-junkie.com The series format was not too dis-similar to ‘Hancock’s Half-Hour’. Howerd plays ‘Francis Howerd’, an exaggerated version of himself, a humble comedian with aspirations of becoming an international star. Each edition would begin with Frankie addressing the audience directly, before relating a personal experience which would be told in flashback. Each week he would be aided and abetted by various star guests....

Nov 03, 202129 min

HAUNTING HOUR - Pale Hands That Kill - HALLOWEEN SPECIAL!!

Visit our store for more shows Audioshows.e-junkie.com TAPPING AT THE WINDOW....... The Haunting Hour is a very mysterious show. First, let's note that the Haunting Half-Hour would actually be correct, but an odd title for the show. So Haunting Hour it was.

Oct 29, 202131 min

Round The Horne - A Man is Two foot Tall - Old Radio Show Episodes UK Comedy

BUY the Complete ROUND THE HORNE on download VISIT OUR STORE CLICK HERE - Audioshows.e-junkie.com Round the Horne is a radio comedy program that was transmitted in four series of weekly episodes from 1965 until 1968. The show was created by Barry Took and Marty Feldman who wrote the first three series. The fourth was written by Took, Johnnie Mortimer , Brian Cooke and Donald Webster. Round the Horne starred Kenneth Horne , with Kenneth Williams , Hugh Paddick , Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee Old...

Oct 27, 202127 min

It's That Man Again! - Taking Over Public School - Old Radio Show Episodes

Visit our store for more shows Audioshows.e-junkie.com ITMA was a character-driven comedy whose satirical targets included government departments and the ostensibly petty wartime regulations. Parts of the shows were re-written in the hour before the broadcast, to ensure its topicality. The show broke away from the conventions of previous radio comedies, and from the humor of the music halls. It's That Man Again (commonly contracted to ITMA) a Radio Comedy programme which ran over twelve series f...

Oct 24, 202128 min

THE BLACK MUSEUM Orson Wells - Jar of Acid - Halloween Special / thriller

Visit our store for more shows Audioshows.e-junkie.com The Black Museum is another collaboration between Welles and producer Harry Alan Towers. The radio series treated audiences to crime thrillers based on actual Scotland yard cases. Its life spanned exactly the year 1952, with a few weeks off at the beginning of June. Welles played his usual role of host and narrator, and also steered the series in terms of its major direction and aesthetics. Though Welles and Towers drew inspiration from Scot...

Oct 18, 202151 min

Take It From Here - Cowboy Story - UK Comedy

To Purchase the Complete collection of Take it from Here visit Audioshows.e-junkie.com Old Radio Show Take It from Here (often referred to as TIFH, pronounced – and sometimes humorously spelt – "TIFE") was a BBC Radio comedy programme broadcast by the BBC between 1948 and 1960. It was written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden , and starred Jimmy Edwards , Dick Bentley and Joy Nichols ....

Oct 11, 202126 min

SHERLOCK HOLMES - THE DYING DETECTIVE - DETECTIVE CRIME

VISIT https://audioshows.e-junkie.com for the complete collection The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was an old-time radio show which aired in the USA from October 2, 1939 to July 7, 1947. The show first aired on the Blue Network but later moved to the Mutual Broadcasting System. The radio stories were action packed, filled with atmosphere, and featured great music by Lou Kosloff, as well as excellent sound effects. OLD RADIO SHOWS - DETECTIVE CRIME...

Oct 08, 202129 min

I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again - Angus Prune Story - UK Comedy

Visit our store for more Radio Shows Audioshows.e-junkie.com I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again STARING Tim Brooke-Taylor , John Cleese , Graeme Garden , David Hatch , Jo Kendall , Bill Oddie I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again is a BBC radio comedy programme that originated from the Cambridge University Footlights revue Cambridge Circus. It had a devoted youth following, with live recordings enjoying very lively audiences, particularly when familiar themes and characters were repeated;...

Oct 06, 202123 min

DICK TRACY - CASE OF THE DARK CORRIDOR - CRIME / ADVENTURE

Visit our store for more Radio Shows downloads Audioshows.e-junkie.com Vitamin Flintheart and Snowflake find a woman with amnesia by the side of the road who turns out to be a patient that was reported missing from a local sanitarium. old radio shows

Oct 04, 202129 min

Round The Horne - We All Make Mistakes - Old Radio Show Episodes UK Comedy

BUY the Complete ROUND THE HORNE on download VISIT OUR STORE CLICK HERE - Audioshows.e-junkie.com Round the Horne is a radio comedy program that was transmitted in four series of weekly episodes from 1965 until 1968. The show was created by Barry Took and Marty Feldman who wrote the first three series. The fourth was written by Took, Johnnie Mortimer , Brian Cooke and Donald Webster. Round the Horne starred Kenneth Horne , with Kenneth Williams , Hugh Paddick , Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee Old...

Sep 27, 202129 min
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