A dramatized eyewitness report from Robert St. John's From the Land of Silent People recounts scenes from Yugoslavia and Greece as Axis occupation and war overwhelm civilian life. St. John's narrator describes bombings, refugees, military retreat, shortages and encounters with ordinary people trying to survive, including the recurring figure of Sonia. The program is structured as reportage rather than a single plot and closes with St. John reflecting on the occupied peoples who have been forced into silence but continue resistance while waiting for Allied liberation.
This Words at War broadcast aired on July 31, 1943. It is listed as episode 6 in the archive. NBC Radio Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes Alan Bunce, House Jameson, Humphrey Davis, Alfred Shirley, and Victor Beecroft. Other credited names include Joseph Losey as director and Edmund Burnbriar as radio adaptor.
The surviving recording runs about 30 minutes.
This version dramatizes from the Land of Silent People. C. S. Forester is credited as author and Edmund Burnbriar adapted it for radio.
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