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Decades ago, WRVO Public Media began broadcasting old time radio with a small collection comprising 20 reel to real tapes. Today the collection includes nearly 5,000 reels and over 16,000 broadcasts. "Tuned to Yesterday" is public radio's premier old time radio show, hosted by Mark Lavonier. The hig…

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    10/15/25 11pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2025 51:59


    Romance: Silver Theater “Love is Our Destiny” 4/30/39 CBS, Dr. Christian “The Norton Nose” 9/17/47 CBS.

    10/15/25 10pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2025 51:59


    Comedy: Fred Allen Show “Guest: Henry Morgan” 5/2/48 NBC, Eddie Cantor Show “Guests: Burns and Allen” 1/29/48 NBC.

    10/14/25 11pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2025 51:59


    Western: Fort Laramie “The Beasley Girls” 3/18/56 CBS, Gunsmoke “Dutch George” 11/20/55 CBS.

    10/14/25 10pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2025 51:59


    Science Fiction: Quiet, Please “The Other Side of the Stars” 5/8/49 MBS, X Minus One “Shanghaied” 9/1/55 NBC.

    10/13/25 11pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2025 51:59


    Crime: The Whistler “Delivery Guaranteed” 8/19/46 CBS, Suspense “Circumstantial Terror” 3/8/54 CBS.

    10/13/25 10pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2025 51:59


    Series: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar “The Valentine Matter” Part 2 of 5 11/1/55 CBS, Adventures of Marco Polo “Episode #2” 1940 Syndicated, Firefighters “Episode #8” 11/23/49 Syndicated, Man in the Iron Mask “Episode #2” 1948 Syndicated.

    10/12/25 11pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2025 52:00


    Crime: 21st Precinct “The Stolen Cadillac” 1/20/54 CBS, It's a Crime, Mr. Collins “The Clue of the Ivory Thread” 1957 Syndicated.

    10/12/25 10pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2025 51:59


    Drama: Lady Esther Screen Guild Theater “Flesh and Fantasy” 7/16/45 CBS, CBS Radio Workshop “People Are No Good” 9/8/57 CBS.

    10/11/25 11pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2025 51:59


    Mystery: Nero Wolfe “Case of the Careless Cleaner” 11/17/50 NBC, Richard Diamond, Private Detective “The Cover-Up Murders” 11/22/50 NBC.

    10/11/25 10pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2025 51:59


    Comedy: Jack Benny Program 12/7/47 NBC, Charlie McCarthy Show “Guest: Hedy Lamarr” 2/22/42 NBC.

    10/10/25 11pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2025 51:59


    Mystery: Pat Novak for Hire “Agnes Bolton Case” 6/4/49 ABC, Sherlock Holmes “Case of the Norwood Builder” NBC.

    10/10/25 10pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2025 51:59


    Sitcom: Honest Harold 1/10/51 CBS, Our Miss Brooks 1/22/53 CBS.

    10/9/25 11pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2025 51:59


    Adventure: Cloak and Dagger “Operation Sellout” 9/22/50 NBC, Suspense “The Steel River Prison Break” 7/27/58 CBS.

    10/9/25 10pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2025 51:59


    Horror: Weird Circle “The Warning” 1944 NBC Syndication, Suspense “The Man in the Room” 5/11/50 CBS.

    10/8/25 11pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2025 51:59


    Romance: Hallmark Playhouse “The Arbutus Bonnet” 4/6/50 CBS, Romance “Pagosa” 8/6/51 CBS.

    10/8/25 10pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2025 51:59


    Comedy: Candid Microphone “First Anniversary Show” 7/1/48 ABC / AFRS, Jack Benny Program 2/28/54 CBS / AFRS.

    10/7/25 11pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2025 51:59


    Western: Frontier Gentleman “The Preacher” 10/19/58 CBS, Gunsmoke “Feud” 5/29/54 CBS.

    10/7/25 10pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2025 51:59


    Science Fiction: Dimension X “Dwellers in Silence” 7/19/51 NBC, Hall of Fantasy “The Automaton” 7/27/53 NBC.

    10/6/25 11pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2025 51:59


    Crime: FBI in Peace and War “Specialty Act” 2/25/55 CBS, This is Your FBI “The Corrupt City” 2/15/46 ABC.

    10/6/25 10pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2025 51:59


    Series: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar “The Valentine Matter” Part 1 of 5 10/31/55 CBS, Adventures of Marco Polo “Episode #1” 1940 Syndicated, Firefighters “Episode #7” 11/22/49 Syndicated, Man in the Iron Mask “Episode #1” 1948 Syndicated.

    10/5/25 11pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2025 51:59


    Drama: NBC University Theater “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” 4/23/50 NBC.

    10/5/25 10pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2025 51:59


    Horror: The Whistler “Escape to Skull Island” 1/15/50 CBS, Hermit's Cave “The Mystery of the Thing” 1944 Syndicated.

    10/4/25 11pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2025 51:59


    Western: Adventures of Red Ryder “The Casa Grande Valley” 3/12/42 NBC Blue, Dr. Sixgun 10/14/54 NBC.

    10/4/25 10pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2025 51:59


    Comedy: Fibber McGee and Molly “15th Anniversary Show” 9/13/49 NBC.

    10/3/25 11pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2025 51:59


    Mystery: Mr. Keen Tracer of Lost Persons “Boy Who Used Big Words” 2/10/44 CBS, Night Beat “Random Dialing” 7/31/50 NBC.

    10/3/25 10pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2025 51:59


    Sitcom: A Day in the Life of Dennis Day 5/14/49 NBC, Duffy's Tavern 1/5/51 NBC.

    10/2/25 11pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2025 51:59


    Adventure: Voyage of the Scarlet Queen “The Green Tourist and the Temple Bell” 12/3/47 MBS, Man Called X 4/7/51 NBC.

    10/2/25 10pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2025 51:59


    Horror: Dark Fantasy “Rendezvous with Satan” 5/29/42 NBC, Inner Sanctum “Murder Takes a Honeymoon” 7/26/48 CBS / AFRS.

    10/1/25 11pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2025 51:59


    Romance: Lux Summer Theater “Romance to a Degree” 8/3/53 CBS.

    10/1/25 10pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2025 51:59


    Comedy: Jack Benny Program 1/2/49 CBS, Red Skelton Show 2/6/47 NBC / AFRS.

    9/30/25 11pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2025 51:59


    Western: Have Gun, Will Travel “Strange Vendetta” 11/23/58 CBS. Frontier Town “Five Gallons of Poison” 4/2/49 Syndicated.

    9/30/25 10pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2025 51:59


    Science Fiction: Mysterious Traveler “Fire in the Sky” 8/21/51 MBS, Incredible But True “The Phantom Army” 1950's Syndicated, Exploring Tomorrow “The Mutants” 2/12/57 MBS.

    9/29/25 11pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2025 51:59


    Crime: The Whistler “Fatal Fraud” 5/22/49 CBS, Suspense “Experiment 6R” 9/22/49 CBS.

    9/29/25 10pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2025 54:26


    Series: Adventures by Morse “Girl on Shipwreck Island” Part 3 of 3 7/14/46 Syndicated, World's Greatest Novels “Kidnapped” Part 3 of 3 5/14/48 NBC.

    9/28/25 11pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2025 52:00


    True History: 1946 In Review 12/26/46 MBS.

    9/28/25 10pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2025 51:59


    Variety: Shell Chateau 7/13/35 CBS.

    9/27/25 11pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2025 52:00


    Crime: Crime Classics “The Torment of Henrietta Robinson and Why She Killed” 9/7/53 CBS, The Whistler “Saturday Night” 4/27/52 CBS.

    9/27/25 10pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2025 52:00


    Science Fiction: X Minus One “A Pail of Air” 3/28/56 NBC, Lights Out “Revolt of the Worms” 10/13/42 CBS.

    9/26/25 11pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2025 51:59


    Mystery: Adventures of Philip Marlowe “The Ladies Night” 2/21/50 CBS, Adventures of Michael Shayne “Anthony Correll/Man Who Lived Forever” 2/20/52 NBC.

    9/26/25 10pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2025 51:59


    Sitcom: My Friend Irma “Costume Birthday Party” 11/29/48 CBS, Great Gildersleeve 7/30/52 NBC.

    9/25/25 11pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2025 52:00


    Adventure: Rocky Fortune “Oyster Shucker at the Fifty Fathoms” 10/6/53 NBC / AFRS, Adventures of Frank Race “Adventure of Diver's Loot” 10/18/49 Syndicated.

    9/25/25 10pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2025 51:59


    Horror: Lights Out “The Archer” 4/13/43 CBS, Sealed Book “To Have and to Hold” 8/12/45 MBS.

    9/24/25 11pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2025 51:59


    Romance: NBC University Theater “The Time of Man” 7/9/50 NBC.

    9/24/25 10pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2025 51:59


    Comedy: Fibber McGee and Molly 3/7/49 NBC, Charlie McCarthy Show 5/2/43 NBC.

    9/23/25 11pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2025 51:59


    Western: Lux Radio Theater “The Westerner” 9/23/40 CBS.

    9/23/25 10pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2025 51:59


    Science Fiction: X Minus One “Courtesy” 8/18/55 NBC, Escape “Dream of Armageddon” 9/5/48 CBS.

    9/22/25 11pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2025 51:59


    Crime: Bulldog Drummond “The Book Store” 12/24/47 MBS, Counterspy “The Dope Addict” 2/14/52 NBC.

    9/22/25 10pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2025 52:00


    Series: Adventures by Morse “The Girl on Shipwreck Island” Part 2 of 3 7/7/46 Syndicated, World's Greatest Novels “Kidnapped” Part 2 of 3 5/7/48 NBC.

    9/21/25 11pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2025 51:59


    Mystery: Candy Matson “Fort Ord” 10/8/50 NBC, Adventures of Ellery Queen “Nick the Knife” 8/1/45 CBS / AFRS.

    9/21/25 10pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2025 51:59


    Drama: Lux Radio Theater “Thunder on the Hill” 11/9/53 CBS / AFRS.

    9/20/25 11pm Tuned to Yesterday

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 21, 2025 51:59


    Horror: Weird Circle “The Warning” 1944 NBC Syndication, Suspense “The Man in the Room” 5/11/50 CBS.

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