• Radio brought the news directly into listeners’ living rooms. Among the major news stories broken on radio: the Scopes monkey trial, carried live by Chicago station WGN in 1925; the Hindenburg zeppelin disaster, covered by WLS Chicago in 1937; and Edward R. Murrow’s CBS reports on the Blitz of Britain, airing in 1940.

Readers Digest Radio

Broadcast History: 13 September 1942 to 30 September 1945 and 13 January 1946 to 3 June 1948

The stories for this program were adapted from stories which had featured in the Reader's Digest magazine.

During the Hallmark Cards sponsorship period the show was often refered to as The Hallmark Program. The Hallmark Playhouse began its run in June 1948.

Radio Reader's Digest 1947-07-03 The No Account Loafer
 6.82 MB

Radio Reader's Digest 1947-07-10 Deep in the Heart of Show B
 6.8 MB

Radio Reader's Digest 1947-07-17 The Roof Sitter
 6.89 MB

Radio Reader's Digest 1947-07-24 The Prisoner of the Night
 7.16 MB

Radio Reader's Digest 1947-07-31 Remember the Fransens
 6.48 MB

Radio Reader's Digest 1947-08-07 Message for Karen
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Radio Reader's Digest 1947-08-21 Grandma and the Seagull
 6.62 MB

Radio Reader's Digest 1947-08-28 Dear Mom, I'm In Jail
 6.61 MB

Radio Reader's Digest 1947-09-04 Arizona's Adeline Gray
 6.66 MB

Radio Reader's Digest 1947-09-11 Madame Curie
 6.66 MB

Radio Reader's Digest 1947-10-30 A Piece of String
 6.44 MB

Radio Reader's Digest 1947-11-06 Death Across the Table
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Radio Reader's Digest 1947-11-20 Light in the Window
 6.28 MB

Radio Reader's Digest 1947-11-27 Why Keep Your Heart
 6.39 MB

Radio Reader's Digest 1947-12-04 Sunny, The Spirit of '76
 6.17 MB

Radio Reader's Digest 1947-12-11 Guiseppe and the Sergeant
 6.19 MB

Radio Reader's Digest 1947-12-18 A Song from Heaven
 6.39 MB

Radio Reader's Digest 1948-01-01 The Master Swindler
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Radio Reader's Digest 1948-01-08 Woman Who Couldn't Come Hom
 6.13 MB

Radio Reader's Digest 1948-01-15 Hand on the Latch
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Radio Reader's Digest 1948-01-22 Strange Story of John Erics
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Radio Reader's Digest 1948-01-29 Lady for Ransom
 5.99 MB

Radio Reader's Digest 1948-02-05 Case of the Dormitory Theft
 6.46 MB

Radio Reader's Digest 1948-02-12 The Baron of Arizona
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Radio Reader's Digest 1948-02-19 (102) I was a Male War Bride
 6.65 MB

Radio Reader's Digest 1948-02-26 Woman Detective, Stolen Jew
 6.46 MB

Radio Reader's Digest 1948-03-04 Joseph Discovers America
 6.43 MB

Radio Reader's Digest 1948-03-11 Eavesdroppers in Eden
 6.15 MB

Radio Reader's Digest 1948-03-18 One Way to Broadway
 6.68 MB

Radio Reader's Digest 1948-03-25 Deep Water Captain
 6.56 MB

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