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Freberg with his puppet Orville the Moon Man. Stan Freberg (1926 - 2015) was a satirist, voice actor, puppeteer, and advertising man. Freberg began his career as a voice actor for Warner Bros., playing Baby Bear, Pete Puma, and other characters in Looney Tunes cartoons.

August 11, 1957. CBS Radio Network.

Episode 12 aired December 6, 1953 on the NBC Radio Network. Word around town has it that Britt is getting married to the niece of Minnie Flint. Minnie's arranged the whole thing, oops, without bothering to tell Britt.

Edward R. Murrow CBS London August 28, 1939 The news of Europe, as it occurs. 

Episode 2559, June 9, 1954 

Episode 2 Aired on CBS Radio December 22, 1950. Abe Burrows interviews Santa Claus among news events and features presented on the program that week.

Episode 13 aired February 15, 1950 on CBS Radio. Paladin assists his friend Phyllis Thackeray, M.D., when impatience and panic threaten to generate a smallpox epidemic.

Aired on CBS Radio December 20, 1952. A Christmas story, told by Marshal Dillon (William Conrad, photo) to a stranger on a strange horse out on the prairie. Christmas in Dodge City. Matt Dillon, US Marshall, was riding towards Dodge City when his horse got its hoof caught in a frozen prairie dog hole and broke its leg. He had to shoot his horse. Carrying the saddle, he began his long walk to Dodge City, forty miles away. He had been walking and came upon a tall thin stranger riding from the way that he had just traveled.

Originally established as a private fur trading fort in 1834, Fort Laramie evolved into the largest and best known military post on the Northern Plains before its abandonment in 1890. This “grand old post” witnessed the entire sweeping saga of America’s western expansion and Indian resistance to encroachment on their territories.

Episode 13 aired on April 22, 1956 over the CBS Radio Network. The story of a man who was in the army...but never really a soldier, who re-enlists, but for a strange reason. 

A fine story about a shell-shocked soldier walking the fog-filled streets of London...finding murder and terror. Episode 21 aired on CBS Radio December 31, 1947. This episode was adapted from the well-known short story by Algernon Blackwood. William Conrad stars as O'Reilly.

The first episode of Edward R. Murrow's weekly hour long news program featured news of the week and reports from the Korean War Hear It Now, was an American radio program on CBS, which began on December 15, 1950, ending in June 1951. It was hosted by Edward R. Murrow and produced by Murrow and Fred W. Friendly. It ran for one hour on Fridays at 9 pm Eastern Time. The show had a "magazine" format. It sought to include a variety of sounds from current events such as an atom smasher at work or artillery fire from Korea. It was the artillery fire that produced one of the show's more poignant moments as it backdropped the words of American soldiers fighting the Korean War. The entire premise of the show was to include the "actual sound of history in the making," according to Murrow. Some of the show's audio was what Time Magazine called "fairly routine" in 1950. Such soundbites as Communist China's General Wu and Russia's Andrei Vishinsky along with U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Warren Austin were included among those routinely used. But Time also lauded the "vivid reality" created by the aforemention artillery clips, comments from wounded U.S. Marines or Carl Sandburg's recital of his The People, Yes.

The legwork involved in producing the program often exceeded the amount of programming culled from the reporting. For an hour and a half of interviews in Koto the duo was able to use 21 seconds of the material on the air. The program also shied away from the traditional use of string music common to many radio shows of the time period. Instead the show relied on composers such as David Diamond and Lehman Engel to produce its music.

Murrow anchored the show with news and editorial commentary but Hear It Now also featured regular oral columns and features.