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 is shown the human cost of mass unemployment, then guided through Beveridge's argument that government should sustain demand, protect citizens from unemployment and support social security, health care, education and decent housing. Critics challenge the plan as excessive state control, while the broadcast answers that full employment is meant to remove fear and insecurity without abolishing individual freedom.
This Words at War broadcast aired on April 3, 1945. NBC Radio Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes Jack Arthur, Martin Wolfson, Humphrey Davis, Harold Young, and Abby Lewis. Other credited names include Anton M. Leader as director and Ben Kagan as radio adaptor.
The surviving recording runs about 30 minutes.
This version dramatizes Full Employment in a Free Society. William Beveridge is credited as author and Ben Kagan adapted it for radio.
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