Interviews conducted on WHRC, Haverford's college radio station. Includes appearances by William Buckley, George Kennan, J. Wood Krutch, Bruce Reeves, Edward Weeks, and Bishop Oxnam.
Radio programs, court dramatizations, advertisements, and other segments used in the Fiorani radio broadcasts in the Scranton, Pa. area (presumably including WPTS, which Fiorani owned).
A variety of recorded interviews across multiple collections, as aired on a variety of radio stations, including WHYY and (possibly) WEXP, which took to the air in 1972. Online catalog needs further exploration.
Part of a series, "Red Man in Michigan," broadcast on WUOM (Ann Arbor, MI). Features "extensive clips from field recordings made by Gertrude Prokosch Kurath."
Conversation with Semu Huaute, Chumash Medicine Man, on a variety of topics. Recorded at a powwow held at Tonawanda, New York, in the summer of 1966. Broadcast by Radio WBFO (Buffalo, N.Y.) in November 1967. Also includes a brief speech by Mad Bear recorded at the same time.
From radio broadcast titled "Manhattan at Large," originating station unknown. Stanley Michaels, host; guests include Dr. Edmund Carpenter, Pamela Mann, Herman D. Farrell, Jr, Randle Borshi,
Most of the collection is not from radio programs, but it does include radio programs about Marian Anderson and a radio program of recited poetry about Anderson recorded in 1960 for Mason City, Iowa radio station KGLO.
Content types:
Sounds
Repository/Collector:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts
Recordings of Philadelphia Orchestra concerts broadcast by the Philadelphia radio station WFLN, including interviews recorded as concert intermission features. 196-1977.
Formats:
Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription) and VHS (audio)
Extent:
53 recordings
Repository/Collector:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts
The main program this group produced was the "Protestant Hour," a join venture of several southern denominations, including Presbyterians, Methodists and Baptists.
The collection contains the records pertaining to the business and operational aspects of Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians as well as the business records of Fred Waring's America. Includes business correspondence, tours, financial records, legal papers, workshops, radio shows, television shows, photographs, and fan mail.
Content types:
Notated music and Performed music
Formats:
Pressed 78rpm disc, Lacquer disc, Metal disc, and Digital Audio Tape (DAT)
Extent:
159 Cubic Feet (51 linear feet + 1100 Digital Audio Tapes)
Repository/Collector:
The Eberly Family Special Collections Library, Penn State University Libraries
Since its national debut in 1987, Fresh Air with Terry Gross has been a highly acclaimed and much adored weekday magazine among public radio listeners. Each week, nearly 4.8 million people turn to Peabody Award-winning host Terry Gross for insightful conversations with the leading voices in contemporary arts and issues. The renowned program reaches a global audience, with over 620 public radio stations broadcasting Fresh Air, and 3 million podcast downloads each week. Fresh Air has broken the mold of "talk show" by weaving together superior journalism and intimate storytelling from modern-day intellectuals, politicians and artists alike. Through probing questions and careful research, Gross’s interviews are lauded for revealing a fresh perspective on cultural icons and trends. Her thorough conversations are often complemented by commentary from well-known contributors. Fresh Air is produced at WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and broadcast nationally by NPR.
Content types:
Spoken word
Formats:
Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.)
Programs and musical scores used by Voorhees for the Bell Telephone Hour radio and television programs. A sound recording of a special May 16, 1955 program, the "Birthday Broadcast," is also available in a separate collection.
Includes speeches and articles written by Bain, American Women in Radio and Television reports and convention proceedings, TV show ratings and movie reviews and miscellaneous other articles. Bain worked as a music librarian for KFI-KECA in Los Angeles in 1941 and as a traffic director for WCFL.
Repository/Collector:
Stapleton Library, Special Collections & University Archives
Contains materials gathered by Dr. Dale Landon and used in the class, History of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, including scripts for the program Keystone of Democracy, 1942.
Repository/Collector:
Stapleton Library, Special Collections & University Archives
A 98% complete collection of all radio broadcasts by Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians, 1933-1949. Collection includes audio tapes, scripts, production notes, promotional items, scrapbooks, photographs and posters. As of 2005, the archive is processing a list of celebrity personalities who were guests on the programs plus noted musicians who performed as part of the organization.
Nine original scripts for the series in various drafts. The scripts belonged to the real-life criminologist Dr. Carleton Simon who was a character in the episodes and who sometimes also played the part in the actual broadcast. Also includes a letter from the show's producer requesting Simon's permission to use his name.
Repository/Collector:
Temple University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center
Scripts adapted by Reade from Terence Rattigan's "The Winslow Boy" and Robert Louis Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" for the Theatre Guild on the Air. Collection includes two drafts of each script, including the final broadcast version.
Repository/Collector:
Temple University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center
An historical analysis of the broadcast and print media ownership in the top 100 U.S. markets between 1922 and 1967 prepared by Christopher H. Sterling for the National Association of Broadcasters.
Repository/Collector:
Temple University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center
Contains 80 volumes of scripts for One Man's Family and sound recordings of the shows. Also includes scripts for I Love a Mystery, 1939-1952, His Honor the Barber, Adventures by Morse, Family Skeleton, 1953-1954, Slice of Life, 1949, and Chinatown Tales (a.k.a. Chinatown Squad?), 1929, and 44 sound recordings of other shows.
Repository/Collector:
Temple University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center
Includes manuscripts for mystery stories written by Wilson as well as scripts for radio shows she did on WHYY, Philadelphia, including Story Teller's Holiday, Poet's Place and other papers.
Repository/Collector:
Temple University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center
The first 76 scripts of the Good Neighbor Broadcasts written by Edward Thornton and broadcast over WHFC. The program was a joint venture of the Stark County Historical Society in cooperation with the Ohio Broadcasting Corporation.
Repository/Collector:
Temple University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center
Consists of correspondence, subject files, transcripts of radio broadcasts on KDKA and WWSW, 1937-1969, manuscripts, case files, family papers, audio tapes and a film of the Pittsburgh Catholic priest who was active in labor relations and social causes.
Includes papers relating to Hillman' s involvement with Republican Party politics in the 1950s and some material related to Fulton Lewis, Jr.'s radio programs. Also, Folder 141 includes what are likely transcripts of Rev. Carl Mclntire's program, Twentieth Century Hour, 1958-1961 (intermittent).
An engineer and executive for Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, the collection also includes papers relating to Davis's involvement in the beginnings of KDKA, the first commercial radio station in the United States. Also includes material about WJZ.
Papers include scripts Hodges wrote for The Children's Bookshelf and other materials related to the program and also about her role as a storyteller on Let's Tell A Story which became the nationally broadcast television program Tell Me A Story.
Includes scripts and other material for radio programs during the 1940s, including material for You Are An American, 1942-1944. The Institute was concerned about promoting better understanding and appreciation among people of all cultural and national backgrounds.
Contains a script, possibly radio, announcing Buhl Planetarium's Regional Convention of Astronomers and Stargazer's Fair in May, 1940. Also undated scripts for 78 broadcasts of Adventures in Research: Beloved Lens Maker that was part of the Modern Americans in Science and Invention Series.
Seventeen volumes of scripts, some written by Roy LaPlante, and aired on KYW, Philadelphia. Show was a weekly fifteen minute program narrated by school children. Collection also includes sound recordings of the same program, mostly 1944-1945 and one from 1948, and recordings of The World of Yesterday, The Crow and the Daylight, The Mouse Merchant and The Legend of the Willow Plate.
Repository/Collector:
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Education Department, University of Pennsylvania
Primarily Dunning's personal collection of 94 scripts for plays, radio, TV and film and a small amount of related papers, clippings and correspondence. Catalog listing does not include any details about the radio scripts.
Belohlavek founded the Slovak Radio Circle aired on WJBK and later WJLB in Detroit, MI in the 1940s and hosted a half hour program sponsored by the General Stefanik Society. Papers contain a limited amount of material on the Slovak Radio Circle, including meeting minutes, membership lists, reports and correspondence. Included is a 1947 letter informing the of the cancellation of programs such as theirs that bought time from the station and then sold portions of it to individual advertisers. There are also angry letters and a petition denouncing the discontinuance of foreign language programming by the Circle's subsequent broadcasting station, WJLB, in 1948. Approximately 90% of the collection is in Slovak with the majority of documents in English being newsclippings.
Contains photographs of exhibitions sponsored by groups like the Philadelphia Electric Co. and the Electrical Association of Philadelphia that displayed a variety of electrical appliances including model homes, lighting, radios and phonographs. The collection includes documents relating to radio broadcasts.
Papers document Stanton's private life and radio and film activities as they relate to Ireland and the Irish-American community, including his career as an announcer at WIAD where he created the Irish Hour and his later ownership of WJMJ. Includes correspondence, speeches, radio scripts, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, certificates, photographs and a large amount of material on Irish history and culture.
An assemblage of materials collected by Hiteshew which document Irish music in Philadelphia. The materials include the personal papers of area musicians and broadcasters such as Thomas Caulfield, Seamus McGill, Owen B. Hunt and William Regan as well as scripts, sheet music, scrap books and phonograph records. The collection also contains a quantity of printed ephemera such as flyers, posters and programs from events sponsored by area musical organizations, including the Irish Musician's Union and fraternal organizations such as the Donegal Society, the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Galway Society. Within the Hiteshew Collection, personal papers are grouped under individuals' names.
Contains papers related to Regan's career as a broadcaster in Philadelphia, including correspondence, clippings, printed materials, a scrapbook, uncataloged photographs and sound recordings.