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Yes. There are no ads and no subscription. If you enjoy it, you can help keep it on the air: tap Support Radio Days on the Stations page or at the bottom of any page, or give through PayPal here. Any amount helps, and it's never required.

Our free magazine, four times a year. No. 1, the Holiday Edition, covers October through December 2026. Read it here; it opens in a new tab, so the show keeps playing. See Help for more.

Most recordings stream from the Internet Archive (archive.org), where collectors have shared them; a few come from the Radio Days Theater of the Mind Museum. Air dates, casts and other facts are checked against RadioGOLDINdex, J. David Goldin's index of radio broadcasts. The short episode summaries are our own.

Dennis Wright, a former broadcaster, longtime collector, and founder of the Radio Days Theater of the Mind Museum.

Many of these programs survive only on old transcription discs or home recordings made 70 to 90 years ago. We use the best copy we can find.

Lots of broadcasts were never recorded, or the recordings were lost. We also leave out copies we can't match to a real air date, copies that are badly cut, and shows whose rights are in doubt.

Some shows were sent to stations on discs and played on different days in different towns, so there is no single air date. Those play in the series' own order.

Yes. The app opens without one, but the shows stream as you listen.

Yes, on the phone or computer you're using. They don't carry over to your other devices yet.

Nothing you need to do. New shows and improvements arrive on their own the next time you open or refresh the app, including if it's on your home screen. A show you're listening to keeps playing while an update goes out, and your favorites, thumbs, hidden shows, stations and places in episodes stay just as you left them. If you keep the app open for a long time, close and reopen it to see what's new.

They turn Radio Days into an evening in the late 1940s or early 1950s, any night of the week. Press one and you hear the show that network had on at this time on tonight's night of the week, then the rest of its lineup in order, taken from real program listings of 1946 to 1951. Press another button to change networks, just like turning the dial. The lineup changes every day and every week. See Help for more.

Yes. Thumbs up and down steer it episode by episode. Customize Your Stations on the Stations page has a checkbox for every show: untick the ones you don't care for and they won't play on the mixed stations. Not for me does the same for the show that's playing, and Choose Shows for This Station lets you pick which shows play on one station. See Help for details. You can undo any of it.

On the Movie Stars on Radio stations, a clapboard marks a radio version of a Hollywood movie, from shows like Lux Radio Theatre and The Screen Guild Theater, often with the film's own stars. Episodes without one are the star's other radio work: guest spots, variety shows and their own series.

Albert is an AI helper who answers questions about the shows, the stars and the app. He's named for the robot in X Minus One's "How To" (1956). See Help for how to use him.

Your question, along with show information the app looks up for it, is sent to Anthropic, the company that makes the AI, so it can be answered. Radio Days doesn't keep your questions, and the conversation lives only on your screen until you clear it or close the app. Please don't type personal information into it.

Some old programs include stereotypes and attitudes of their time. We keep them as history and say so in the episode's notes.

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