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Apartment in Athens

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In occupied Athens, Nicholas Helianos deliberately takes a German officer, Captain Kalter, into his family home in hopes that apparent cooperation will protect them. The arrangement humiliates his wife Zoe…

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They Left the Back Door Open

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John Donaldson recounts the life of his brother Bill, a working-class Canadian whose belief in British ideals collapses when he sees injustice and indifference toward fascism. Bill deserts the British…

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Brave Men

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A tribute to Ernie Pyle built from dramatized passages of Brave Men rather than one continuous story. The program moves among infantrymen waiting for battle, battlefield deaths, exhausted troops, small…

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The Hide Out

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A dramatization of Egon Hostovsky's The Hideout follows a Czech engineer living secretly in a cellar after fleeing Nazi persecution and becoming cut off from his wife and former life.…

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The Road to Serfdom

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A radio discussion of Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom presents his warning that centralized peacetime economic planning can concentrate power and erode individual liberty. Through staged arguments about business…

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Wartime Racketeers

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A warning about home-front crime dramatizes the many ways racketeers exploit wartime shortages, regulations and grief. Episodes cover scalped train tickets, black-market food and gasoline, counterfeit ration coupons, fraudulent allotment…

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Soldier to Civilian

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Using George K. Pratt's Soldier to Civilian as its guide, this dramatization follows returning veteran Ross as he discovers that coming home does not instantly restore the life he imagined…

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My Country-A Poem of America

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Russell Davenport adapts his own My Country: A Poem of America into a patriotic radio meditation on the nation's people, work, homes, history and democratic inheritance. Multiple voices celebrate farmers,…

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Words at War Intro

A modern Old Time Radio Researchers introduction to Words at War rather than an original episode. Announcer Randy Wenner explains that the series adapted World War II books into half-hour…

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