Orson Welles Radio Almanac

D-Day Show

English · Radio

Orson Welles Radio Almanac was a variety program hosted by Orson Welles, bringing together spoken features and entertainment in a radio-magazine format. This recording is identified as the D-Day show, placing it in the immediate aftermath of the Allied landings in Normandy.

Welles’s presence gives the program a distinctive center: his resonant voice and theatrical delivery guide listeners through the broadcast. The almanac format offers a mix of material rather than a single continuous drama, making the program a snapshot of wartime radio and its blend of information and performance.

The result is a historically situated broadcast with the immediacy of a program made during a momentous week. Listeners can hear Welles addressing an audience in the context of the news and public mood of June 1944.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.