All Rooms
Every way in
46 rooms, one page. Nothing on Planet should be three clicks deep — the modern service, the archive, the territories, the games and the parts of the site that remember you, all listed plainly.
Modern Shows
The podcasts we carry, sorted the way you actually browse.
- Planet PodcastsThe front page of the modern service
- EssentialsThe shows we'd hand a newcomer first
- Top ShowsWhat the most people are listening to
- New ReleasesEpisodes landed in the last few days
- CollectionsHuman-made runs on a single theme
- Explore the UniverseAll ten worlds, side by side
- Live ChannelsAlways-on shuffle across the catalogue
- Deep SearchSearch inside episodes, not just titles
The Radio Planet
Eighty thousand restored broadcasts and the rooms built around them.
- The Radio PlanetThe archive's own front hall
- Faceted BrowseFilter 80,000 recordings by year, length, mood
- The StationsShuffle stations that never stop
- The Late DialAll-night listening, low and warm
- The Shellac ShelfNearly 30,000 78rpm records
- Mood DoorsThirty-two ways in when you don't know what you want
- The Programme GuideA rolling 24 hours of listings
- The Time MachinePick a year, hear the dial
- On This DayWhat was on the air on today's date
- You Are ThereLandmark days, hour by hour
Territories
Deep sections with their own history, shelves and editorial.
- The NewsroomThe Dateline, 1938 to 1949
- The Radio WarEvery side of the dial, 1939 to 1945
- The Live WirePre-1950 live drama and comedy
- Broadway on the AirTheatre companies at the microphone
- A Century on the AirThe moments that stopped the world
- The HandoverRadio in the television age, 1948 to 1959
- The Music HallVariety, vaudeville and the band shows
- The Press BoxLive sport as it was called
- Mission ControlSpaceflight audio, 1961 to 2011
- The First RecordingsThe earliest voices on record
- The Early DialThe 1920s and early 1930s
- The Other DialThe world outside North America
- The Canadian DialCBC and the private stations
- Christmas on the AirSeventy seasons of holiday broadcasts
- The RecordPublic domain documentary as audio
Play & Read
Games, essays and the writing around the catalogue.
Yours
The parts of the site that remember you.