Suz MamaFrog
07-29-2010, 11:03 AM
This (http://www.oldtimeradiofans.com/) site has many old radio shows - WWII Bob Hope shows, great classics like Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes, Orson Welles' Mercury Theater troupe, Burns and Allen, Abbot and Costello, even the original first Lone Ranger broadcast from 1933. All the files are in mp3 and free to download. There's probably something there for just about all ages. (some of the jokes in the variety shows - Jack Benny, Burns and Allen, Bobn Hope, etc. - I downloaded are a bit on the racy side, but still nothing compared to today's so-called comedy.)
Here's (http://www.archive.org/details/mercurytheaterorsonwelles) more classic dramas, including some more family friendly programs - Huckleberry Finn, Mutiny on the Bounty, Teasure Island - from Orson Welles' Mercury Theater and Campbell Playhouse that OTRFans doesn't necessarily have. (They have some but not all.)
On a more serious side of radio broadcasting, here (http://www.archive.org/details/Complete_Broadcast_Day_D-Day) you can find the complete CBS radio D-Day broadcasts from June 6, 1944. This could go-along with Helen Keller and the WWII lessons, as well as Homer. I don't know as if my kids would want to listen to all of this, but I found it almost spellbinding, and I know how things turns out in the end. I could see playing part of it, or perhaps playing it in the background as you go about your day, unless you really have some WWII fans in your family.
HTH!
Suz
Here's (http://www.archive.org/details/mercurytheaterorsonwelles) more classic dramas, including some more family friendly programs - Huckleberry Finn, Mutiny on the Bounty, Teasure Island - from Orson Welles' Mercury Theater and Campbell Playhouse that OTRFans doesn't necessarily have. (They have some but not all.)
On a more serious side of radio broadcasting, here (http://www.archive.org/details/Complete_Broadcast_Day_D-Day) you can find the complete CBS radio D-Day broadcasts from June 6, 1944. This could go-along with Helen Keller and the WWII lessons, as well as Homer. I don't know as if my kids would want to listen to all of this, but I found it almost spellbinding, and I know how things turns out in the end. I could see playing part of it, or perhaps playing it in the background as you go about your day, unless you really have some WWII fans in your family.
HTH!
Suz