The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe
Originally broadcast on NBC, 22 December 1950. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1950–1951
- Surviving broadcasts
- 41
- Genre
- talk
Hear It Now was broadcast by CBS from December 1950 to June 1951, hosted by Edward R. Murrow and produced with Fred W. Friendly. Built from actuality recordings gathered during the week — from Korea, from Washington, from ordinary streets — it carried the documentary method of the pair's I Can Hear It Now records onto live network radio, and became the direct template for their television series See It Now. These recordings are public domain.
1951 · 91950 · 3
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 8 of 8
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: hearitnow
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
6 dated broadcasts across 2 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1950
1951
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1950, in original transmission order.
- 1. HearItNow501215ep01 64kb · 15 Dec 1950
- 2. HearItNow501222ep02 64kb · 22 Dec 1950
- 3. More News From the Korean War front · 29 Dec 1950
- 01
HearItNow501215ep01 64kb
15 Dec 1950 · 59 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “hearitnow”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 02
HearItNow501222ep02 64kb
22 Dec 1950 · 59 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “hearitnow”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
- 03
More News From the Korean War front
29 Dec 1950 · 45 min
Broadcast on CBS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
Retreat in Korea
12 Jan 1951 · 59 min
Broadcast on CBS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
The Cost of a pound of Steak
26 Jan 1951 · 59 min
Broadcast on CBS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
Isolationist Debate in Washington
16 Feb 1951 · 59 min
Broadcast on CBS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
A Biography of a Labor Union
9 Mar 1951 · 59 min
Broadcast on CBS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
The Human Tick
30 Mar 1951 · 59 min
Broadcast on CBS. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Same night on the air
22 Dec 1950
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 22 Dec 1950.
This Is Your FBI
Broadcast 22 December 1950. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The Magnificent Montague
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 22 December 1950. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on CBS
CBS in 1950–1951
Other series the network carried while Hear It Now was on the air.
Same seasons
talk on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The correspondent under fire
A reporter with a microphone standing where the story is happening, describing it while it happens. Murrow's London roofs and the UP wire dispatches made on-scene reporting a sound, not a summary.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Hear It Now
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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