Full Employment in a Free Society
A policy dramatization of William Beveridge's Full Employment in a Free Society frames the postwar economy as a fork in the road between Depression and Full Employment. A returning veteran…
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A policy dramatization of William Beveridge's Full Employment in a Free Society frames the postwar economy as a fork in the road between Depression and Full Employment. A returning veteran…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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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