The mission of MPIR is to provide FREE access and introduction to the wonderful world of Old Time Radio. Turn that TV off, throw it out the door. Your mind is better, and gets better reception! Old Time Radio are radio plays from the 30's 40's and 50's, long before television. Rich, in history, American culture, and good clean family entertainment.
Arch Oboler's Plays
Episode from March 9th, 1940
Title : Johnny Got His Gun
Starring James Cagney
The story of a blind, deaf ex-GI and his struggles in a VA hospital after losing both arms and legs.
Written By : Dalton Trumbo
Black Mass was born in 1963, the brain-child of Jack Nessel, who was the Drama & Literature Director at KPFA in Berkeley, the first voluntarily listener-sponsored non-commercial FM station in the world. (The BBC was compulsorily supported by a government-imposed license system.) Jack suggested the idea to Erik Bauersfeld, who taught aesthetics and philosophy at the California School of Fine Art, and had recently begun to do readings of classic and modern literature for the station. Erik was not wildly enthusiastic, but thought that it might be interesting to search out some of the best stories of the supernatural by first-rate authors who did not normally write within that genre. Obligation soon became obsession.
Welcome to the Archive's audio and MP3 library. This library contains over a hundred thousand free digital recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by our users. Many of these audios and MP3s are available for free download.