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WNAR-AM offers local community and internet listeners a recreation of what radio was about sixty years ago. I grew up with radio drama and comedy, and still can't get enough of "The Theater of the Mind". I do hope you find this programming...

Stations

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5pm

Family Theater Classics

5:30pm

Whitehall 1212

6:10pm

CBS Radio Mystery Theater

7pm

WNAR National News

Podcasts

Our Miss Brooks

Our Miss Brooks starring Eve Arden Who played the fun-loving but sometimes frazzled English teacher at Madison High School, Our Miss Brooks . Probably the most famous teacher ever on radio, Connie Brooks was a wonderful combination of sincere and...

Shows

A Five Minute Mystery

Lansdale, PA

A Visit with Mrs. G.

In this show the vivid retelling of Bible stories enables thousands of listeners -young and old alike- to feel themselves a part of the drama of the Bible. In all her stories she combines accuracy with modern appeal. She has made the Bible come alive...

Academy Award Theater

Academy Award Theater was a CBS radio anthology series which presented 30-minute adaptations of plays, novels or films.

Adventure Theater

Lansdale, PA

Adventures Of Sam Spade

The Adventures of Sam Spade was a radio series based loosely on the private detective character Sam Spade, created by writer Dashiell Hammett for The Maltese Falcon. The show ran for 13 episodes on ABC in 1946, for 157 episodes on CBS in 1946-1949,...

All Star Western Theater

Telford, PA

Amos and Andy

Amos 'n' Andy is a situation comedy based on stereotypes of African-Americans and popular in the United States from the 1920s through the 1950s.

Blackstone The Magic Detective

Lansdale, PA

Blue Beetle

It was an old time radio show. The Blue Beetle was a young police officer who saw the need for extraordinary crime fighting. He took the task on himself by secretly donning a superhero costume to create fear in the criminals who were to learn to fear...

Bold Venture

Bold Venture was a 1951-1952 syndicated radio series starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. It featured adventure, intrigue, mystery and romance in the sultry settings of tropical Havana and the mysterious islands of the Caribbean.

Boston Blackie

Boston Blackie is a fictional character created by author Jack Boyle (born before 1880; died circa 1928). Originally a jewel thief and safecracker in Boyle's novels, he became a detective in adaptations for films, radio and television.

Broadway Is My Beat

Broadway Is My Beat, a radio crime drama, ran on CBS from February 27, 1949 to August 1, 1954. The story revolved around a hardened New York City policeman who worked the homicide devision.

Calling All Cars

Calling All Cars is a classic among police dramas and one of the earliest of the genres. Believed to be a precursor to the popular police drama Dragnet, Calling All Cars portrayed the true crime stories of the Los Angeles Police Department.

Casey, Crime Photographer

Casey, Crime Photographer was a media franchise, in the 1930s through the 1960s. Created by George Harmon Coxe, the photographer Casey was featured in radio, film, theater, novels, magazines and comic books.

CBS Radio Mystery Theater

CBS Radio Mystery Theater was a dramatic series that aired nightly on the CBS Radio Network from January 6, 1974 through December 31, 1982. There were 1399 programs and counting repeats, the program was aired 2969 times.

Challenge Of The Yukon

The program was an adventure series about Sergeant William Preston of the Northwest Mounted Police and his lead sled dog, Yukon King, as they fought evildoers in the Northern wilderness during the Gold Rush of the 1890s.