The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1949–1949
- Surviving broadcasts
- 16
- Genre
- drama
A strange 1949 fantasy serial that has almost no company in surviving radio. Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive, harvested from the Old Time Radio Researchers collections and indexed episode by episode.
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
5 dated broadcasts across 78 years on the air, with 77 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 2026, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Long Silence · 21 Apr 2026
- 2. A Room Above the Street · 28 Apr 2026
- 3. Signal at Midnight · 5 May 2026
Dead Air
4 Aug 2026 · 40 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
Sign Off
28 Jul 2026 · 55 min
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
The Case of the Missing Hour
21 Jul 2026 · 18 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
Night Broadcast
14 Jul 2026 · 33 min
Recorded on location, with the room left in.
The Last Train Out
7 Jul 2026 · 48 min
New tape, a reluctant witness, and a timeline that finally stops making sense.
Signal at Midnight
30 Jun 2026 · 1h 3m
We go back to the beginning and read everything again.
A Room Above the Street
23 Jun 2026 · 26 min
Three interviews, one archive reel, and a question nobody wanted asked.
The Long Silence
16 Jun 2026 · 41 min
The episode listeners keep sending to people who never listen to podcasts.
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1949–1949
Other series the network carried while The Wormwood Forest was on the air.
Same seasons
drama on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
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