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Books In WartimeWords At War (June 24, 1943)

Words At War
war anthology ; documentary and drama

Broadcast History :

June 24th, 1943 - June 5th, 1945
NBC. 30m, Thursdays at 8:00pm
Tuesdays at 11:30pm in 1945

Heard in the Truth of Consequences summer slot July 17 - August 14th, 1943
Saturdays at 8:30pm

Summer replacement for Fibber McGee and Molly
June 27 - October 3, 1944
Tuesdays at 9:30pm for Johnsons Wax

Broadcast From New York

Cast :

Les Damon, Sam Wanamakeer, Luis Van Rooten, Joan Alexander, Fay Baker, Lon Clark, Bernard Lenrow, Stefan Schnabel, House Jameson, Alfred Shirley, Don MacLaughlin, Lawson Zerbe, Jackson Beck, Mandel Kramer, Frank Lovejoy, Santos Ortega, Sarah Burton, David Gothard, Bill Zuckert, Norman Rose, Raymond Edward Johnson, Ned Wever, Everett Sloane, Kermit Murdock, Norman Lloyd, Rolfe Sedan, Richard Widmark, Jim Boles, Karl Weber, Ed Begley, Juano Hernandex, Betty Caine, Wendell Holmes, Anne Seymour.

Announcer : Jack Costello

Organist : William Meeder

Orchester : Frank Black, Morris Mamorsky

Directors : Joseph Losey, Frank Papp, Anon M. Leader, Garnett Garrison

Writers : Gerald Holland, Edith R. Sommer, Nora Stirling, Kenneth White, Richard McDonagh, Neal Hopkins

Producer in cooperation with Council on Books in Wartime

Praised by Variety as "one of the most outstanding programs in radio."

Praised by Newsweek as "one of the best contributions to serious commercial radio in many a year."

Music score by Frank Black. Produced by The NBC Orchestera.


This audio is part of the collection: Old Time Radio

Author: Books In Wartime
Date: 1943-06-24
Keywords: old time radio ; words at war ; world war 2 ; war ; true stories ; battlefield ; drama ; documentary ; books in wartime

Notes

43/06/24 1 Combined Operations
43/07/10 3 They Call It Pacific
43/07/17 4 The Last Days of Sevestopol
43/07/24 5 The Ship
43/07/31 6 Firm Hands, Silent Poeple
43/08/07 7 Prisoner of the Japs
43/08/14 8 Love at First Flight
43/08/19 9 Last Days of Sevestopol
43/08/21 10 Malta Spitfire
43/09/02 12 Dynamate Cargo
43/09/16 14 Since You Went Away
43/09/23 15 They Shall Not Have Me
43/09/30 16 Battle Hymn of China
43/10/05 17 Eighty Three Days
43/10/12 18 Paris Underground
43/10/19 19 Shortcut to Tokyo
43/10/26 20 Who Dare to Live
43/11/02 21 Here Is Your War
43/11/09 22 To All Hands
43/11/23 24 Escape from the Balkins
43/11/30 25 Hail Caesar (El Duce)
43/12/07 26 Book of War Letters
43/12/14 27 Mother America
43/12/21 28 Log Book-British Merchant Marine
43/12/28 29 Ninth Commandment-Invasion of Holland
44/01/04 30 They Shall Inherit the Earth
44/01/11 31 Eighty Three Days
44/01/18 32 War Tide
44/01/25 33 Condition Red
44/02/01 34 White Brigade
44/02/08 35 George Washington Carver
44/02/15 36 The New Sun
44/02/22 37 Assignment USA
44/03/07 39 Weeping Wood
44/03/14 40 Science at War
44/03/21 41 Der Feuhrer
44/03/28 42 A Bell for Adano
44/04/04 43 Assignment USA
44/04/11 44 Wild River
44/04/18 45 Silence of the Seas
44/05/02 47 Curtain Rises
44/05/09 48 Gunners Get Glory
44/05/16 49 Lifeline
44/05/23 50 Lend Lease - Weapon for Victory
44/05/30 51 The Navy Hunts the Cgr 3070
44/06/13 Here's Your War
44/06/27 52 Fair Stood the Winds of France
44/07/04 53 War Criminals and Punishment
44/07/11 54 Captain Retread
44/07/18 55 War Below Zero
44/07/25 56 Lost Island
44/08/01 57 Headquarters Budapest
44/08/08 58 Nazi's Go Underground
44/08/29 61 Simone
44/09/05 62 The Veteran Comes Back
44/09/12 63 One Man Air Force
44/09/26 65 Journey Through Chaos
44/10/03 66 Pacific Victory, 1945
44/10/10 67 The Veteran Comes Back
44/10/24 69 Still Time to Die
44/11/14 71 One Thing After Another
44/11/21 72 Barriers Down
44/11/28 73 Camp Follower
44/12/05 74 The Guys on the Ground
44/12/12 75 Your School, Your Children
44/12/19 76 The Cross and the Arrow
44/12/26 77 Scape Goats in History-History of Bigotry in the US
45/01/02 78 It's Always Bright Tomorrow
45/01/09 79 Borrowed Nights
45/01/16 80 Verdict on India
45/01/23 81 The Story of a Secret State
45/02/13 83 What to Do with Germany
45/02/20 84 Battle Report - Pearl Harbor to the Coral Sea
45/02/27 85 Faith of Our Fathers
45/03/06 86 Rainbow
45/03/13 87 Can Do
45/03/20 88 Tomorrow We'll See
45/03/27 89 Banshee Harvest
45/04/03 90 Full Employment in a Free Society
45/04/10 91 Apartment in Athens
45/04/17 92 They Left the Back Door Open
45/04/24 93 Brave Men
45/05/01 94 The Hide Out
45/05/15 95 The Road to Curftom
45/05/22 96 Wartime Racketeers
45/05/29 97 Soldier to Civilian
45/06/05 98 My Country

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