Norman Corwin
CBS, New York
1941–1945 · CBS and combined networks
3 EpisodesTwice weeklyPGSince 1941
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Restored broadcasts from 1941, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Odyssey of Runyon Jones · 1 Jan 1941
- 2. We Hold These Truths · 15 Dec 1941
- 3. On a Note of Triumph · 8 May 1945
The Odyssey of Runyon Jones
1 Jan 1941 · 28 min
A boy searches the afterlife for his dog. One of the twenty-six programmes Corwin wrote, produced and directed at the rate of one a week for the Columbia Workshop.
We Hold These Truths
15 Dec 1941 · 1h 0m
Commissioned for the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Bill of Rights and broadcast eight days after Pearl Harbor, simultaneously on all four American networks — the largest audience a radio play has ever had.
On a Note of Triumph
8 May 1945 · 58 min
Corwin's V-E Day programme, written and broadcast the day Germany surrendered and heard by an estimated sixty million Americans. CBS.
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