Comedy
The Intimate Strangers
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Booth Tarkington
"Beginning with the girl of yesterday and a lawyer of uncertain age, stranded in a railway station, half starved and uncertain of the f…
Mayor Of The Town
Various
Life in a small town, featuring Lionel Barrymore and Agnes Moorehead. (1942 - 1949)
Mice and Men
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Madeleine Lucette Ryley
No, not the famous “Of Mice and Men” you’re thinking of. Instead, we have a sweet romantic comedy that tells the story of a bachelor, Mr. E…
Measure for Measure (version 3)
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William Shakespeare
Measure for Measure is one of William Shakespeare's more enigmatic works. As one of the so-called "problem plays," it mixes a dark…
Ford Theater 49 03 04 The Horn Blows At Midnight
Unknown
This is the radio version of The Horn Blows at Midnight, starring Jack Benny, and Claude Rains. Jack, playing a minor angel named Athanael, …
The Parson's Wedding
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Thomas Killigrew
Often considered Killigrew's best play, this is a comedy with a bawdy tone where people flirt, trick each other and everyone else. It was th…
Trinummus: The Three Pieces of Money
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Titus Maccius Plautus
Buried treasure, reckless son, exile, young love, betrayal, detection - all as relevant today as when this comedy was written 2200 years ago…
Jack Benny 1937 03 07 Fight Of The Century
Unknown
Jack uses Abe Lyman and his Orchestra while broadcasting from New York, and has a hard time trying to convince everyone he's not afraid of L…
Ian Hislop’s Oldest Jokes: BBC Radio Comedy
BBC Radio 4
Ian Hislop takes a hilarious look at some of Britain's oldest jokes The British are rather proud of their sense of humour - but where has th…
Fred Allen 10 Eps
Fred Allen
(10 Episodes) Classic Fred Allen - Town Hall Tonight; The Fred Allen Show; OTR * def gp ddh
The Train at Platform 4
BBC Radio 4
Comedy legends Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis bring a new sitcom to Radio 4, set in the claustrophobic carriages of a cross-country rail service…
Fifty Cents
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Billy Mortimer
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Fifty Cents by Billy Mortimer. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 21, 2011.Or…
The Gondoliers
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W. S. Gilbert
In typical Gilbert and Sullivan "Topsy Turvy" style, the King of Barataria has gone missing! He was stolen as a baby and raised in…
Summer Boarders; or The Great Jewel Mystery
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Josephine Van Tassel Bruorton
A rich widow or two. An owner of 1000 acres of fine land. An heiress to the 1000 acres. Nefarious visitors of various sorts after the land, …
Lady Frederick, a Comedy in Three Acts
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W. Somerset Maugham
Lady Frederick is a comedy by the British writer W. Somerset Maugham, written early in his career. The play was first seen in London in 1907…
The Birds
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Aristophanes
"The Birds' differs markedly from all the other Comedies of Aristophanes which have come down to us in subject and general conception. …
Moon Mullins 03 Eps
Various
(03 Episodes) "Moon Mullins," was an Old Time Radio situation comedy that began as a newspaper comic strip character. OTR * def gp…
EF Benson: BBC Radio Comedy Dramas
BBC Radio 4
A BBC Radio collection of social comedies, wry observations of Victorian society and ‘spook stories’ from the great humorist E. F. Benson. E…
The Provoked Wife: A Comedy
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John Vanbrugh
This Restoration Comedy follows Lady Brute as she decides whether or not to cuckold her coarse and unloving husband. Not as brash and farcic…
Meet Corliss Archer Part 1
Various
Six episodes of a fairly rare OTR program. Corliss is a Teenage girl with all the crisis' of a teenager. This may be classified as comedy or…