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This guide is designed to provide research guidance to New York University community on radio. Different sections of this guide can help with research in:

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Search here for books, articles, journals and other print materials, videos, sound recordings, e-books, e-journals, databases, and indexes in our local libraries and special collections.

Streaming historical radio programs and broadcasts

Internet Archive Radio Programs
The Internet Archive's radio collection provides free access to digitized radio plays and programs. Coverage spans much of the 20th and 21st century.
National Public Radio Morning Edition archives
This archive of streaming National Public Radio (NPR) broadcasts from their daily morning news program, Morning Edition, goes back until 1996.
Internet Archive — Audio News and Public Affairs
The Internet Archive's audio news and public affairs collections features free, streaming access to alternative independent radio news programming. In addition to radio news shows, this collection features the Presidential Recordings collection of historical speeches, secret recordings, and Voice of America (VOA) broadcasts.
National Public Radio "All Things Considered" archive
This streaming archive of National Public Radio's daily nightly news program, All Things Considered, goes back to 1995.

Radio and Broadcasting Archives and Scripts

Library of American Broadcasting
Housed at the University of Maryland, this collection includes a wide-rangeof audio and video recordings, books, pamphlets, periodicals, personal collections, oral histories, photographs, scripts and vertical files devoted the history of broadcasting.
National Public Broadcasting Archives
Housed at the University of Maryland, this collection contains textual record of NPR, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, PBS, and others. Also maintains a selected audio and video archive for NPR and CPB.
Generic Radio Workshop: Vintage Radio Script Library
The Generic Radio Workshop is a group devoted to re-creating and performing historic radio shows. The site contains a repository of historical radio show scripts broadcast in the United States.
George H. Clark Radioana Collection
The Radioana collection at the Smithsonian, much of which has been digitized and made available online, forms a documentary record of over half a century of the history of radio, with the greatest emphasis on the period 1900-1935. The collection includes materials that span the entire history of the growth of the radio industry. It is useful for those historians and other researchers interested in technological development, economic history, and the impact of applications of technology on American life.
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Historic News Broadcasts
The BBC started broadcasting regular daily news bulletins in 1922, and they have made a selection of historic broadcasts available to download from their site, from the 1920s-2000s.

Radio Series Scripts, 1930-2001 by Norman Corwin (Foreword by); Jeanette M. Berard (Compiled by); Klaudia Englund (Compiled by)
Call Number: Main Collection Offsite Z7223.S3 T56 2006
ISBN: 9780786424696
Publication Date: 2006-05-12
A reference book and collection of radio show scripts from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s and through subsequent decades are for long-running shows. Crime series, mysteries, romances, situation comedies, variety shows, soap operas, quiz show series and others are included. Includes an index by name, program and sponsor.
Radio scripts : holdings of the Margaret Herrick Library by Margaret Herrick Library
Call Number: Z7223 .S3 M3 1990
Publication Date: 1990
Physical copy of radio script holdings at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science, located in the NYU Bobst Library.

Transcripts from Radio News Programs

Transcripts via LexisNexis
Includes radio and tv transcripts from ABC, CNN, NPR, CBS, NBC, Federal News Service, Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Charlie Rose, and more.
Transcripts via Factiva
Includes transcripts from CBS, NBC, ABC, CNBC, Fox, MSNBC, NPR, and more. Coverage may be slightly different from LexisNexis.

Access World News This link opens in a new window
Access World News provides the html full text and, for some titles, the pdf "as printed" visual representation, of articles from a variety of national and international news sources, including newspapers, digital-native news websites, television and radio transcripts, blogs, college and university newspapers, journals, magazines, and some audio and video. Most international titles are English language. Dates of coverage vary from title to title, but primarily span the late 20th century to present.