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Old Time Radio Comedy — You Bet Your Life: "Audition" (1947) | Full Episode Jul 22, 2026

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You Bet Your Life was the quiz show that was really a comedy show, built entirely around the lightning-fast wit of Groucho Marx. This is the original audition recording — the demonstration disc that Groucho and producer John Guedel financed and cut themselves at a CBS studio on September 15, 1947, weeks before the show's official ABC premiere. It captures the very first time the format was tried out: Groucho as a quiz host who cares far more about ribbing his contestants than about the questions, ad-libbing his way through interviews with everyday people and proving that the show's real prize was the laughter. This audition sold ABC on the series and launched one of the longest, best-loved runs in broadcast history. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Drama — Screen Guild Theater: "Casablanca" (1943) | Full Episode Jul 21, 2026

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The Screen Guild Theater condensed Hollywood's biggest pictures into half-hour dramas, with the original stars reprising their roles and donating their fees to the Motion Picture Relief Fund. In this celebrated April 1943 broadcast, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid step back into Casablanca — the story of Rick Blaine, a hard-shelled American running a nightclub in wartime Morocco, whose armor cracks the night Ilsa walks back in on the arm of Resistance hero Victor Laszlo. With letters of transit the only ticket out of a city under Vichy control, Rick must choose between the woman he loves and the fight against fascism. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Horror — The Weird Circle | Full Episode Jul 20, 2026

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The Weird Circle was radio's syndicated home for classic horror, heard from 1943 to 1945, dramatizing the great tales of terror by Poe, Stevenson, Dickens, and Maupassant — all summoned by the toll of a great bell. This episode is pure Weird Circle: a gothic tale of dread told with no musical score, its terror carried entirely by voices, silence, and the slow creep of sound toward a shivering climax. Dim the lights and step into the circle. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Thriller — Escape: "The Man With Steel Teeth" | Full Episode Jul 19, 2026

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Escape was radio's premier anthology of high-adventure drama on CBS (1947–1954), dropping listeners each week into life-or-death straits and tales of suspense and the supernatural. In "The Man With Steel Teeth," an ordinary man is drawn into a web of menace by a sinister, unforgettable adversary — and a desperate bid for survival builds under the show's trademark atmosphere of dread. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Western — The Cisco Kid: "Cisco Meets the Apache Kid" (1953) | Full Episode Jul 18, 2026

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Ride the frontier trail with the Robin Hood of the Old West. In this episode, Cisco and his loyal, wisecracking sidekick Pancho cross paths with the notorious Apache Kid, sparking a classic tale of mistaken identity, danger, and frontier justice. A lighthearted Western adventure from the golden age of radio, capped with the warm, comical banter that always sends our heroes riding off together. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Comedy — The Great Gildersleeve: "Gildersleeve vs. Golf" (1952) | Full Episode Jul 17, 2026

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Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve is Summerfield's blustering Water Commissioner -- long on confidence, short on follow-through, and never quite as impressive as he believes he is. In this November 1952 outing, Gildy's run at a golf championship is thrown into chaos by an overbearing houseguest who needles him into a challenge he has no business accepting. As always, wounded pride does far more damage than any sand trap. Willard Waterman stars as Gildy, with Walter Tetley as nephew Leroy and Lillian Randolph as Birdie, in radio's first true spin-off comedy. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Adventure — The Green Hornet: "Put It on Ice" (1939) | Full Episode Jul 16, 2026

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Britt Reid, crusading newspaper publisher by day and the masked Green Hornet by night, wages a secret war on the racketeers the law can't reach. In this July 1939 adventure, a meat packing plant is being sabotaged, and the Hornet moves to take a bite out of a ruthless scheme to seize control of the company. The episode also marks the in-person return of reporter Michael Axford. With his loyal valet Kato at his side and the supercharged Black Beauty at the curb, the Hornet strikes where crime least expects it. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Western — The Six Shooter: "More Than Kin" (1953) | Full Episode Jun 22, 2026

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The Six Shooter was NBC's warm, character-driven Western, starring James Stewart as Britt Ponset, an easygoing wandering cowboy who keeps drifting into other folks' troubles. In "More Than Kin" (December 13, 1953), Britt rides into town to discover everyone is buzzing about his wedding -- a wedding he knows nothing about. Minnie Flint has decided her niece and the drifting cowboy are a perfect match and arranged the whole affair without telling the groom. A warm, funny tangle of small-town matchmaking carried by Stewart's unmistakable folksy charm. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Horror — Inner Sanctum Mysteries: "No Coffin For The Dead" (1945) | Full Episode Jun 21, 2026

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Step through the famous creaking door into Inner Sanctum Mysteries, radio's beloved horror anthology hosted by the droll, pun-loving "Raymond." In "No Coffin For The Dead" (CBS, February 20, 1945), Peter Frame is found murdered and all signs point to the deranged son of his housekeeper -- a man who escaped an asylum but was shot in flight and could no longer walk. If the only suspect physically could not have done it, who did? Les Tremayne stars in a twisting tale of murder, madness, and misdirection. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

Old Time Radio Detective — Nero Wolfe: "The Hasty Will" (1951) | Full Episode Jun 20, 2026

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Sydney Greenstreet stars as Rex Stout's orchid-loving armchair genius in The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe. When banker John Blake asks Wolfe to safeguard a hastily typed will and a sealed letter for his long-estranged brother, then promptly vanishes, the great detective must sort kidnapping from murder from suicide. Behind the family secrets lies a masterfully staged deception -- and a trail of embezzlement only Wolfe can unravel from his brownstone armchair. 🎧 Hundreds more classic radio shows free at https://www.vintageradioshows.com 📱 Listen anywhere with the Vintage Radio app for iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vintage-radio/id455577974

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