A decade, one year at a time
The Year in Radio News
A yearly digest of the actual news broadcasts, strung together year by year, gives the clearest sense of how fast the decade moved.
1938 – 1949 · 5 stops · 2h 55m
- 1
The year before the war, already anxious about what was coming.
- 2
The year the war became American, told through the bulletins that carried it.
- 3
A year of invasions, told at the pace they happened.
- 4
Victory in two theatres, six months apart, in the same twelve months.
- 5
The postwar world settling into a colder, longer conflict.
