You Are There: Old-Time Radio News

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Old-time radio news from 1947–1950: You Are There. Free, complete episodes, restored audio, no modern ads. You Are There: 90 episodes, in the order they first aired. A new episode every week. From Stupid Potato: 62 free 24/7 channels of classic radio and vintage TV, and 191 podcasts, at stupidpotato.com.

Episodes

  1. 3d ago

    You Are There: The Storming Of The Bastille (1947)

    You Are There: “The Storming Of The Bastille”, first broadcast on July 14, 1947. Old-time radio news. Free, complete and restored, no modern ads. A new episode every week: You Are There on Stupid Potato, every episode so far and the episode guide. Stupid Potato restores classic radio and TV audio and runs 62 free 24/7 channels and 191 podcasts: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, vintage TV, Saturday-morning cartoons, Halloween and Christmas. No modern ads. Listen free at stupidpotato.com.

  2. Nov 4

    You Are There: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (1947)

    On the night of April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln attends a charity performance of the comedy Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Reporters move through the crowd outside and inside the theater, speaking with Lincoln, his guests, the theater staff and the presidential guard, John F. Parker. The play is interrupted by a shot from the presidential box, and the audience and the reporters rush to find out what has happened. The broadcast follows the confusion in the theater, then turns to reports from the Peterson House, where the wounded president has been carried, and to the wider alarm across the capital. The episode is in the You Are There series, first broadcast by CBS on December 14, 1947. With Abraham Lincoln, John Daly, John Hollenbeck, Quincy Howe, Ned Crowe, John F. Parker, Clara Harris, Major Rathbone. Listen for: The sudden shot from the presidential box during the performance, and the reporters' accounts of the crowd's reaction as the news spreads First aired on July 7, 1947. Free, complete and restored, no modern ads. A new episode every week: You Are There on Stupid Potato, every episode so far and the episode guide. Stupid Potato restores classic radio and TV audio and runs 62 free 24/7 channels and 191 podcasts: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, vintage TV, Saturday-morning cartoons, Halloween and Christmas. No modern ads. Listen free at stupidpotato.com.

  3. Oct 28

    You Are There: The Burr - Hamilton Duel (1948)

    Vice President Aaron Burr is rowed across the Hudson River to the dueling grounds on the Weehawken heights in New Jersey on the morning of July 11, 1804. Reporters hidden in the rocks nearby watch him and his seconds prepare the ground. Burr's longtime political rival, Alexander Hamilton, arrives by boat with his own party. The seconds examine the pistols and make final arrangements, while the two men stand apart and speak little. This CBS broadcast is part of the You Are There series, first aired on January 11, 1948, and is presented as a dramatized account based on historical facts. With Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, John Daley, Ned Kalmer, Matthew Davis, William Van Ness, Nathaniel Pendleton, David Hosack. Listen for: The reporters' hidden microphone captures fragments of the duelists' and seconds' conversation on the ledge, and the spectacles Hamilton puts on before taking aim. First aired on January 11, 1948. Free, complete and restored, no modern ads. A new episode every week: You Are There on Stupid Potato, every episode so far and the episode guide. Stupid Potato restores classic radio and TV audio and runs 62 free 24/7 channels and 191 podcasts: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, vintage TV, Saturday-morning cartoons, Halloween and Christmas. No modern ads. Listen free at stupidpotato.com.

  4. Oct 28

    You Are There: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (1947)

    On the night of April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln attends a charity performance of the comedy Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Reporters move through the crowd outside and inside the theater, speaking with Lincoln, his guests, the theater staff and the presidential guard, John F. Parker. The play is interrupted by a shot from the presidential box, and the audience and the reporters rush to find out what has happened. The broadcast follows the confusion in the theater, then turns to reports from the Peterson House, where the wounded president has been carried, and to the wider alarm across the capital. The episode is in the You Are There series, first broadcast by CBS on December 14, 1947. With Abraham Lincoln, John Daly, John Hollenbeck, Quincy Howe, Ned Crowe, John F. Parker, Clara Harris, Major Rathbone. Listen for: The sudden shot from the presidential box during the performance, and the reporters' accounts of the crowd's reaction as the news spreads First aired on December 14, 1947. Free, complete and restored, no modern ads. A new episode every week: You Are There on Stupid Potato, every episode so far and the episode guide. Stupid Potato restores classic radio and TV audio and runs 62 free 24/7 channels and 191 podcasts: old-time radio westerns, detectives, comedy, science fiction and suspense, vintage TV, Saturday-morning cartoons, Halloween and Christmas. No modern ads. Listen free at stupidpotato.com.

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Old-time radio news from 1947–1950: You Are There. Free, complete episodes, restored audio, no modern ads. You Are There: 90 episodes, in the order they first aired. A new episode every week. From Stupid Potato: 62 free 24/7 channels of classic radio and vintage TV, and 191 podcasts, at stupidpotato.com.

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