The sub-series consists of 11 half-hour programs from the 1961 radio series "Matters of Record", which featured program highlights from the preceding 25 years of CBC radio broadcasting. The series as broadcast comprised 13 episodes.

SUMMARY: Program in a series featuring excepts of radio broadcasts from the Second World War era held by CBC radio's archives. J. Frank Willis introduces the program. [NAC description]

SUMMARY: Program in a series featuring excepts of radio broadcasts held by CBC radio's archives. J. Frank Willis introduces the program. Included are V-J Day and V-E Day announcements by Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower, dramas and documentary programs of the era, Matthew Halton reporting from the Nuremberg Trails, Goering, Hess, Von Ribbontrop,and others pleading not guilty, programs illustrating the new sense of Canadian identity, Newfoundland joining Confederation and the launch of the Sputnik satellite. [NAC description]

SUMMARY: Program in a series featuring excepts of radio broadcasts held by CBC radio's archives. J. Frank Willis introduces the program. It examines the role of radio during the war through spoken word, music and actuality broadcasts. Willis describes the growth of radio in Canada during the war. Included is a montage of voices and sounds from the early years of the Second World War, war announcements, news, troop actuality, songs and different radio programs. [NAC description]

SUMMARY: Program in a series featuring excepts of radio broadcasts held by CBC radio's archives. The series traces the history of radio, in particular the CBC. J. Frank Willis introduces this program about comedy on radio. Included are excerpts of THE HAPPY GANG, Woodhouse and Hawkins, ALL ABOUT EMILY, A FORETASTE OF HINDSIGHT and Wayne and Shuster. [NAC description]

SUMMARY: Program in a series featuring excepts of radio broadcasts held by CBC radio's archives. J. Frank Willis introduces the program. The program explores the difference between pre-television soap operas o;n radio and today's radio drama. Included is a variety of samples of radio drama. [NAC description]

SUMMARY: Program in a series featuring excepts of radio broadcasts held by CBC radio's archives. J. Frank Willis introduces the program. It looks back at the work of veteran broadcasters Stanley Maxted, Earl Kelly, Davidson Dunton and others. [NAC description]