The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1954–1958
- Surviving broadcasts
- 52
- Genre
- docudrama
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Biography_in_Sound”; these recordings are in the public domain.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
0 dated broadcasts across 5 years on the air, with 5 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from NaN, in original transmission order.
- 1. Sigmond Romburg · Date unknown
- 2. F Scott Fitzgerald · Date unknown
- 3. Albert Schweitzer · Date unknown
Sigmond Romburg
Date unknown · 58 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
F Scott Fitzgerald
Date unknown · 54 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Albert Schweitzer
Date unknown · 49 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Robert Benchley
Date unknown · 50 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Mary Martin
Date unknown · 54 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Franklin Roosevelt
Date unknown · 54 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Carl Sandburg
Date unknown · 54 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
George Bernard Shaw
Date unknown · 54 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on NBC
NBC in 1954–1958
Other series the network carried while Biography in Sound was on the air.
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