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The Grantland Rice Story.
Discover the world of sportswriter Grantland Rice through this radio series. Jimmy Powers draws on Rice’s autobiography, The Tumult and the Shouting, to revisit sporting memories and personalities. Browse the available episodes and choose your next classic radio listen.
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The Grantland Rice Story: Programme Guide.
A sporting achievement becomes a story about the person behind it. The Grantland Rice Story revisits athletes, contests and memorable personalities through the recollections of a celebrated sportswriter.
Broadcast history.
RCA advertised the recorded quarter-hour programme in 1955, identifying its source as Rice’s The Tumult and the Shouting. The advertised package was designed for weekly local broadcasts rather than a single universal national transmission date.
Cast and creative team.
Jimmy Powers presents, with sporting guests and recorded Rice material described in contemporary promotion. A subject such as Irvin S. Cobb is not automatically the programme’s permanent narrator or an actor performing in every edition.
Where to begin.
The Uncrowned Champs · Irvin S. Cobb - A Man of Heart
These available recordings offer an introduction to this collection. Their current publication dates are separate from historical broadcast dates.
An interesting detail.
Rice’s recorded voice, Powers’s presentation and a guest interview are different kinds of contribution. Distinguishing them helps the listener hear the programme as a retrospective rather than live commentary from each original sporting event.
Listening appeal.
Try The Uncrowned Champs or Irvin S. Cobb: A Man of Heart. The separate subjects provide independent entry points without requiring a continuous season narrative.
Collection and date notes.
HRV lists 52 public recordings. The fifty-two records form the available collection; local transmission dates can differ. Current podcast dates describe later archive publication, separately from original broadcast dates.
Sources.
Choose your next episode.
52 public recordings in this programme. Catalogue order is not a verified original broadcast chronology.
52 episodes available.
Questions about The Grantland Rice Story.
Are these all live commentaries from the original sporting events?
The programme looks back through presentation, recollection and recorded material.
Is every subject named in a title the host?
Jimmy Powers presents the changing subjects.
