"The Big Story" Revealed

Here are the true stories behind the dramas presented in golden age of radio series The Big Story that dramatized actual life stories in an "authentic but fictional" manner. Through newspaper archives and other research, this site reveals the actual events that The Big Story used to chronicle the heroic quests that newspaper reporters  made for truth and justice in their communities. The series was successful on radio from 1947 to 1954 and also on television from 1950 to 1957. Many of the radio scripts were adapted for the TV version.