The Story of Spitsbergen Island

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

The exact date of this episode is unknown. We've filled in the date above with a placeholder. What we actually have on record is: 1945-uu-uu.

Performer Host, Gladys M. Petch ; interviewer, Don Dorday ; interviewees, Gunnar Melle, and two unidentified persons.
Note Broadcast on WNYC, 1945.
Summary Radio program "Norway fights on" broadcast over WNYC by the Royal Norwegian Information Services, New York office. "The Story of Spitsbergen" features Don Cordray interviewing three people who witnessed the NAZI attacks. The show is hosted by Gladys M. Petch.
Local Note MSU: Gift of Bernhard Wichert.
Subject Civil defense -- Norway -- Spitsbergen Island.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Norway -- Spitsbergen Island.
Genre Radio interviews.
Nonfiction radio programs.
Additional Author Cordray, Don, interviewer.
Petch, Gladys, host.
Melle, Gunnar, interviewee.
Added Author Norske informasjonstjeneste i Amerika.
WNYC (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
Uniform Title Norway fights on (Radio program)
Other Title Story of Spitsbergen.


WNYC archives id: 152207

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