Daybreak

This is the ninth episode of The Corwin Cycle, WNYC's 1942 series reviving a selection of radio plays by Norman Corwin. Note: This recording is incomplete and only a fragment from the original broadcast.

Originally produced as the eighth program of 26 by Corwin over CBS on June 22, 1941. Frank Gallup was the Pilot, and La Coehlo, the Brazilian contralto, sang the "Xango". Lyn Murray composed and conducted the score. This script was a favorite of Carl Van Doren who included it in his collaborative anthology Three Readers. It is published among the plays included in Thirteen by Corwin.

In Thirteen by Corwin, he writes:

The subtitle of this script, announced in the first production, A program to follow on your atlas. It is just that. For a week I crawled over globes and atlases, tracing each meridian from pole to pole and making happy discoveries such as the one involving Magellian, Hudson and Columbus...

Special thanks to the Norman Corwin Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries for making these files available to us.

WNYC archives id: 152506