I Can Hear It Now

We Want Willkie

English · Radio, History

I Can Hear It Now is a documentary radio series assembled from recordings of public events, speeches, news reports, and other voices of the recent past. Journalist Edward R. Murrow guides the program, bringing the recorded material together as a vivid account of people and events heard in their own words.

Rather than presenting a conventional drama, each installment builds its story through archival sound and narration. Murrow’s measured commentary provides context while the original voices carry the immediacy of the moment, creating a listening experience shaped by the contrast between reflection and firsthand testimony.

The series offers a distinctive blend of historical record and radio storytelling: intimate, thoughtful, and attentive to the sound of public life. Its documentary approach lets listeners encounter the past not only as a sequence of facts, but as voices, arguments, and moments preserved on the air.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.