Archive for the ‘Lux Radio Theatre’ category

The Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of Bob Hope’s best-selling book about his travels, visiting U.S. Troops overseas. Original Air Date: January 8, 1945 Click here to add to Itunes.

The Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the 1943 movie about the Marine campaign on Guadalcanal. Original Air Date: February 28, 1944 Click here to add to Itunes.

A Marine retires to a pacifist colony in the Philippines, having never seen battle. Original Air Date: November 8, 1943 Click here to add to Itunes.

A chief petty officer (Pat O’Brien) clashes with a newly enlisted former officer (George Murphy) whose career the Chief Petty Officer helped in from Lux Radio Theatre. Original Air Date: May 3, 1943 Click here to add to Itunes.

An American girl of German descent is taken and forced into the dark world of Hitler’s Germany. From Lux Radio Theatre Original Air Date: May 24, 1943 Click here to add to Itunes.

Episode 144: China

April 11th, 2014

A man who sells gasoline to both sides encounters an American woman and Chinese children who are fleeing from the Japanese. Original Air Date: November 22, 1943 Click here to add to Itunes.

The Lux Radio Theatre of the Irving Berlin’s World War 2 classic musical. Original Air Date: February 22, 1943 Click here to add to Itunes.

A wealthy matriarch struggles with the changes that the war brings to her life. From the Lux Radio Theatre. Original Air Date: December 7, 1942 Click here to add to Itunes.

Episode 100: My Favorite Blonde

February 25th, 2014

A vaudeville performer (Bob Hope) with a trained penguin gets mixed up with a female British agent who needs to deliver an encoded jewel to Los Angeles. Original Air Date: October 1942 Click here to add to Itunes.

Episode 074: So Proudly We Hail

January 30th, 2014

The story of nurses serving in the Pacific as chronicled in the Oscar-nominated film with all-star case. Original Air Date: November 1, 1943 Click here to add to Itunes.

Episode 066: Wake Island

January 22nd, 2014

A group of Marines fights the Japanese Navy against overwhelming odds. From the Lux Radio Theatre. Original Air Date: October 26, 1942/ Click here to add to Itunes.

Episode 015: Buck Privates

November 29th, 2013

The Lux Radio Theater presents the adaptation of the classic story of Abbott and Costello joining the army. Original Air Date: October 13, 1941

Clark Gable stars in this radio version of the 1932 film version of the classic Hemingway novel. Original Air Date: April 5, 1937 You can subscribe the War in itunes by clicking here or for all other feed readers click here.