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RADIO DRAMA IN ACTION by Erik -- Ed. Barnouw

RADIO DRAMA IN ACTION

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Pub Date: Nov. 8th, 1945
Publisher: Farrar & Rinehart

A selection of 25 radio scripts which have been outstanding in the field of public service radio...which have brought in stark, dramatic form social awareness to a wide public. Among the contributors are Pearl Buck, Orson Wells, Stephen Vincent Benet, Norman Rosten, Roi Ottley, Langston Hughes, Arch Oboler, and -- foremost man in the field -- Norman Corwin. The issues range from race hatred to the war; China, the Red Army, the Japanese- American, the Boise, TVA, Bretton Woods, the Warsaw Ghetto, etc. making this an internationally grounded and internationally minded anthology. For drama study groups -- and for teachers looking for material to use in assembly, etc.