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Words at War

Words at War Intro

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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 dramatic broadcasts, notes its wartime context, sponsorship and production personnel, praises the surviving recordings and describes the show's docudrama style and serious treatment of war. No episode plot is presented.

This recording comes from Words at War.

This surviving item is preserved as reference material.

NBC wartime anthology dramatizing contemporary books about World War II, produced with Council on Books in Wartime/war-information context.

Listeners can expect drama and documentary, dramatized adaptation in format, and serious in tone.

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