Greatest Radio Show Ever

As the end of World War II in Europe came in sight, Norman Corwin was asked to prepare a special broadcast, to be held ready for V-E Day. This is that broadcast. It is Corwin’s masterpiece. Even after half a century, it is arguably the finest use of the radio medium ever achieved.

“… a vast announcement, a terrific interrogatory,
one of the all-time great American poems.”
– Poet Carl Sandburg

NPR.org, May 26, 2005 ·  On May 8, 1945, 60 million Americans tuned in to hear On A Note of Triumph, Norman Corwin’s radio masterpiece marking the end of World War II in Europe. Lauded by Carl Sandburg as “one of the all-time great American poems,” it was the most listened-to radio drama in U.S. history.
In the 1950’s  I majored in Radio Tv and Film at the university of Miami [Fla] there were a lot of very talented folks in school with me, and one afternoon  Dave Madden a classmate of mine who in later years was in the Partridge Family and Laugh In,  listened to On A note Of Triumph-This was what radio used to be-it is important that if you study Communication Arts today you should listen to this-I follow Dave Winer on the internet and he seems to be a follower of all forms of media this is important to all of us-with the collapse of the Old Media we need a reference point- Norman Corwin celebrated his 97th birthday on May 3, 2007, and today lives in Los Angeles, keeping busy as always. He is still writing for radio, and is writer in residence at the Journalism School at USC. He writes articles for various publications, and is active in various organizations in and around the Los Angeles area.

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