A wartime Ceiling Unlimited feature uses three elderly veterans debating a radio report to explain the growing importance of military air transport. Their argument moves from Civil War memories and distrust of modern change to examples of aircraft carrying hospitals, supplies, mail and men across oceans. The broadcast ultimately links air transport to a smaller, more interconnected world and argues that freedom cannot survive in a world left half free and half enslaved.
This The Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcast aired on November 16, 1942. It is listed as episode 2 in the archive.
Only 18 objects belong to Mercury Theatre on the Air proper; later items are separately profiled by historical program.
Listeners can expect drama, anthology drama in format, and dramatic in tone.
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