The Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - Old Time radio adventure - Instant Download
Horatio Hornblower was a 30 minute historical adventure & action radio series which first aired in 1952 and was produced by Harry Towers and starred Michael Redgrave.
Redgrave played the part of Hornblower, a captain in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic era. The radio series was based on twelve Horatio Hornblower novels written by C.S. Forester. These novels were, and still are, well liked due to their realistic tone and historical accuracy in telling the tales of Naval life in the late 1700s through the mid 1800s. C.S. Forester was well known for his novels about military and naval life, including such fine titles as The African Queen, The General. The Gun and the The Barbary Pirates.
Hornblower is iconic in the Age of Sail traditional naval fiction, and any writer in the genre must deal with comparisons to Forester. There are many parallels between Hornblower and real naval officers of the period, especially Thomas Cochrane and Horatio Nelson. The name “Horatio” was inspired by the character in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and chosen also because of its association with contemporary figures such as Nelson.
This downloadable .zip file contains the following episodes:
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1952-07-07 0001 Horatio Deals with a Mad King.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1952-07-14 0002 Horatio Captures the Natividad.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1952-07-21 0003 The Shakey Alliance with El Supremo.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1952-07-28 0004 The Battle Against El Supremo.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1952-08-04 0005 The Lydia Sinks the Natividad.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1952-08-11 0006 The Damaged Lydia Heads for Panama.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1952-08-18 0007 The Return to the Fleet.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1952-08-25 0008 The Return to the Sea.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1952-09-01 0009 The Protecting the Convoy.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1952-09-08 0010 The Disguised As a French Ship.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1952-10-03 0011 The Guerilla Action.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1952-10-24 0014 The Mutiny on the Flame.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1952-10-31 0015 The Disguised As the Flame.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1952-11-14 0017 The Capture of Le Harve the.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1952-12-12 0021 The Napoleon Is Defeated.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1952-12-19 0022 The Prisoner in 1811 a.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1952-12-26 0023 The Horatio Meets Marie and Escapes.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1953-01-02 0024 The Horatio Captures a Ship.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1953-01-09 0025 The Rejoining the Fleet.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1953-01-16 0026 The Horatio Is Court Martialed.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1953-01-23 0027 The Into the Baltic.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1953-01-30 0028 The Chasing the Blanche Fluer.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1953-02-06 0029 The Alliance with Russia.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1953-02-13 0030 The Reception with the Czar.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1953-02-20 0031 The Attack on Fort At Fisher s Half.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1953-02-27 0032 The Port of Riga.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1953-03-06 0033 The Delaying the French.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1953-03-13 0034 The French Are Stopped the.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1953-03-20 0035 The Duel the.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1953-03-27 0036 The Spanish Leave Napoleon the.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1953-04-03 0037 The Hornblower s First Command.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1953-04-10 0038 The Prisoner of the French on the Peek .mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1953-04-17 0039 The With the 43rd Marines.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1953-04-24 0040 The Spain Becomes Neutral.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1953-05-01 0041 The Exam for Lieutenant.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1953-05-08 0042 The Quartined for the Plague.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1953-05-15 0043 The Chasing the Papillion.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1953-05-22 0044 The Command of the La Mouch.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1953-05-29 0045 The Prisoner and Rescue of Spanish.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1953-06-05 0046 The First Meeting with Bush.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1953-06-12 0047 The Planning Mutiny on the Renoun.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1953-06-19 0048 The First Attact on Haiti Fails.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1953-06-26 0049 The Attact on Haiti Fort.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1953-07-03 0050 The Yellow Fever.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1953-07-10 0051 The Fighting the Spanish on the Renoun.mp3
Adventures of Horatio Hornblower - 1953-07-17 0052 The Promoted to Captain of the Retribution.mp3
