Yesterdial: Tune In To Yesterday

Yesterdial is a free, interactive 1940s radio. Turn the dial through 15 stations of old-time radio drama, comedy, mystery, science fiction, westerns, Sherlock Holmes, The Shadow and bedtime stories, all streamed from the Internet Archive.

Your complete listing of tonight's programs

PROGRAM GUIDE

· Tap a station to tune in

Every program is streamed directly from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio collection, largely thanks to the volunteers of the Old Time Radio Researchers group. Each station follows the clock, so everyone listening hears the same show at the same moment. Many recordings are shared under Creative Commons non-commercial terms. Follow a program's link to see its source and license.

♥ Every one of these recordings is kept free by the Internet Archive, a non-profit library. Please consider donating to the Internet Archive.

About

YESTERDIAL

Tune in to yesterday

Yesterdial is a free, non-commercial radio for the golden age of broadcasting. Fifteen stations of old-time drama, comedy, mystery, science fiction, westerns and bedtime stories play on the clock, so everyone who tunes in hears the same show at the same moment.

Every sound comes from the Internet Archive

Yesterdial doesn't host any audio. Every program streams straight from the Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library that preserves millions of recordings, books and web pages and shares them with everyone for free. Each program in the Program Guide has a "source" link back to its page on the Archive.

♥ Donate to the Internet Archive

If an evening with Yesterdial was a good one, please consider a gift to the Archive. It's what keeps these recordings available for everyone.

With thanks to

The Old Time Radio Researchers: the volunteers who track down, restore and catalog vintage radio shows. Most of the 1930s–50s programs here come from their collections on the Archive.
LibriVox: the volunteers who record public-domain books aloud. The bedtime stories and The Hound of the Baskervilles are theirs.
The collectors and uploaders who shared the rest (The Shadow, CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Night Beat, Mindwebs, the Ray Bradbury adaptations and many more), and the writers, actors and engineers who made the shows in the first place.

Good to know

Many older programs are in the public domain or shared under Creative Commons licenses. Some later ones (such as CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Mindwebs, Nightfall and The Price of Fear) may still be under copyright and appear here only because they are on the Archive. If you hold the rights to a program and would like it removed from Yesterdial, please open an issue.

The code behind Yesterdial is open source under the MIT license, on GitHub.