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Apr 21, 1943 · 29:33
This story is common knowledge among railway men no matter what run they’re on but if you go into library and start…
Apr 23, 1945 · 28:49
A bit of a tearjerker love story, this is the story of two lives in war torn England. The tale of love between Buster…
Aug 11, 1944 · 29:05
Sure Grammy had her shortcomings, particularly reading but if you’re the right kind you’ll make out all right. It won’t…
Aug 18, 1944 · 29:22
Career woman or homemaker, Candy wanted to help decide Pam Peter’s fate but fate has a maddening habit of plotting its…
Aug 25, 1944 · 23:08
The strange tale written by Arthur Wing Pinero, about a very young and attractive widow named Miss Jesmond. Let us go…
Aug 4, 1944 · 30:00
If Lige Gallop hadn’t liked playing the flute this might have been a different story or none at all. On the other hand…
Dec 11, 1944 · 26:41
Authors Playhouse presents a special fun adaptation of English poet Robert Browning's The Pied Piper of Hamlin adapted…
Dec 21, 1941 · 29:10
This is his heartwarming tale of Christmas written by O. Henry set in the camps of the young west. To the reader of…
Dec 4, 1944 · 28:00
A mysterious, hilarious, madcap tale by H G Wells. A ghost has been discovered by Clayton at the Mermaid club, intent…
Feb 19, 1945 · 28:44
This story recreates the tense atmosphere of tunnel building bringing to life the hard living hard working sandhogs who…
Jan 15, 1945 · 28:20
Izzy, a young immigrant Jewish poet is fed up of not being taken seriously by anyone. To appease his father, he takes a…
Jan 22, 1945 · 28:23
Belle Hawes surveyed this new country of opportunity, and then looked at her son, Jim, with troubled eyes, for the boy…
Jan 6, 1943 · 28:38
This is the story of those lonely hunters of the sea, the men of the United States Submarine Fleet stalking the enemy…
Jul 14, 1944 · 28:03
Young Frankie didn’t know what to make of this man he hadn’t seen before, or had he? But the stranger offered him…
Jul 15, 1944 · 29:06
He Woke Up Famous is a short of a man who couldn’t help being a hero. It was written by Corey Ford and adapted for…
Jul 21, 1944 · 28:25
George tells his wife about the dream he had in which he was chasing Laura Maxwell in a green bathing suit on the tenth…
Jul 22, 1944
A city desk hums, deadlines snap, and a weary press photographer shoulders his battered gear in search of the next…
Jul 28, 1944 · 28:10
Two brave men stop at the perilous mission and the sea in turn rewards one of them by revealing an amazing secret.…
Jul 29, 1944 · 28:53
We have been told that faith will move mountains. Perhaps then faith will reunite those who through circumstance have…
Jul 8, 1944 · 29:10
Author’s Playhouse present Frederick Englehart’s fantastic drama of a submarine that’s brave commander and crew and a…
Jun 16, 1944 · 29:02
Greatness all too often weaves a background of loneliness. Such was the case of Robert Knowles an actor who gets a…
Mar 12, 1945 · 29:07
"They say what happened was all my fault, and no matter what I tell 'em, I can't convince 'em that it was her that…
Mar 31, 1943 · 29:01
This is a story of loneliness, struggle and hope taken from Josephine Young Case's 1938 narrative poem. It is a…
Mar 5, 1941 · 27:28
Opening the series is a tale from one of America's foremost writers, Stephen Vincent Benet; poet, critic, novelist,…
May 14, 1945 · 28:45
Henry Sinkin was once in the class of 1915. The ivy covered walls of the college, the hallowed halls of the fraternity.…
May 19, 1943 · 28:58
A man with murder on his conscience waits until the eleventh hour to unburden his soul. He waits until it's almost time…
May 21, 1945 · 28:48
Generally speaking, ghosts are just plain spirits. Once in a blue moon though, there's a spirit who thrives in the…
Nov 13, 1944 · 24:16
Until the strain of overwork resulted in a tragic mental breakdown, McNamara's Band was the favorite game of Philip…
Nov 20, 1944 · 24:00
In wartime Washington, a romance blossoms between two fiercely independent characters, who are frustrated with one…
Oct 13, 1943 · 28:19
Luke McCoy may have been short of some of the virtues but he had a good heart and a long memory and that explains how…
Oct 16, 1944 · 25:12
In Ecuador's Andes mountain range, there lies a valley, called the Country of the Blind. Many years ago, the valley lay…
Oct 5, 1942 · 27:53
Flight To Arras is Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s deeply stirring account of France at war. Those days in June 1940 were…
Oct 7, 1942 · 27:53
A deeply disturbing account of France at war, and a reconnaissance sortie over enemy lines during World War II, written…
Sep 1, 1944 · 28:44
The spell of ancient China has always fascinated artists of the western world and none moreso than this ancient folk…
Sep 15, 1944 · 28:57
A story of romance south of the border in Mexico City’s gay hotel Pizaro one of the worlds few remaining luxury hotels.…
Sep 22, 1944 · 30:16
Cry For The Hunted is Frederick J. Lipp’s dramatic story of a man whose mind snapped and of how he came back to the…
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