In recent weeks, I’ve posted some shows from a previously overlooked World War II series, “Yankee Doodle”, produced by the Office of Civilian Defense to encourage people to support the war effort on the home front. This week, we kick off a few individual shows, not part of a series, from the same batch of discs.
“Of Interest to the Enemy”, is a fifteen minute drama about Larry Crane, “told by the man who wrote his obituary”. The editor of a small-town newspaper talks with different people in the town about the loss of one of their own who died fighting in the Pacific. It prompts the editor to write an editorial about the “Block Plan”, to coordinate neighbors for civilian defense. The show was written by Pauline Gibson and directed by William Rousseau.
Our mp3 was transferred direct from an original sixteen inch vinyl OWI transcription, matrix number G-1995.
We’ll have a few more shows in this series in the following weeks.
Louie’s Hungry Five - Pgm 311 - October 12, 1931
Yankee Doodle - Pgm 5
Guest Star - Pgm 682 - April 17, 1960
American Family Robinson - Pgm 256
Wade Lane’s Home Folks - Pgm 13
American Radio Newsreel - Pgm 4
All Aboard for Adventure - Series III - Pgm 10
Yankee Doodle - Pgm 4
Louie’s Hungry Five - Pgm 310 - October 10, 1931
Wade Lane’s Home Folks - Pgm 4
Safe at Home - Pgm 5
Hymns and Their Romance - April 2, 1950
Louie’s Hungry five - Pgm 309 - October 9, 1931
Hymns and Their Romance - January 21, 1950
For Your Consideration - Pgm 4 - November 26, 1941
This Is Your FBI - August 15, 1952 - syndication version
Guest Star - Pgm 681 - April 10, 1960
American Family Robinson - Pgm 205 - outtake
American Family Robinson - Pgm 205 - lacquer master
Union Leader Tobacco - April 1, 1940
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