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Radio Soap Operas and Family Serials

Daily and weekly radio serials following the lives of families and communities, from One Man's Family, Ma Perkins and Vic and Sade to The Guiding Light and the BBC's The Archers. A work belongs here when its article calls it a radio serial, soap opera or family drama. Programmes are placed by the format their cited article names for them, and each programme sits in exactly one group of this subcategory, so a series that fits two formats goes where its article places it first.

Radio Soap Operas and Family Serials
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One Man's Family (Wikipedia)
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One Man's Family is an American radio soap opera, heard for almost three decades, from 1932 to 1959.
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Vic and Sade (Wikipedia)
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Vic and Sade is an American radio program created and written by Paul Rhymer.
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Ma Perkins, Wikipedia
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Ma Perkins (sometimes called Oxydol's Own Ma Perkins) is an American radio soap opera that was heard on NBC from 1933 to 1949 and on CBS from 1942 to 1960.
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Guiding Light, Wikipedia
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Guiding Light (also known as The Guiding Light before 1975) is an American daytime soap opera.
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Wikipedia: The Archers
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The Archers is a British radio soap opera broadcast on BBC Radio 4, the corporation's main spoken-word station.
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