Radio Primer

This is an episode of The Corwin Cycle, WNYC's 1942 series reviving a selection of radio plays by Norman Corwin. Its sequence within the series is #19.

Radio Primer is Norman Corwin's guided tour through the world of radio and was the final proCorwin Cycle series on WNYC directed by Joel O'Brien with the WNYC Concert Orchestra conducted by Emerson Buckley. Radio Primer was the first program of the original 26 by Corwin series presented by the author over CBS a year earlier in 1941.

From the September/October 1942 WNYC Masterwork Bulletin:

DRAMA. The most famous of radio writers is a man in his thirties, with a shock of black hair, a shaggy mustache, and an accent that indicates his New England upbringing. His name is Norman Corwin and he's the author of such famous radio plays as "My Client Curley," "The Odyssey of Runyon Jones," "We Hold These Truths" and many, many more. We bring all this to your attention because the work of this master of the microphone is being brought to you, week by week, on "The Corwin Cycle" (Tuesdays, 8:00 to 8:30 p.m.). On this unique show, the first radio
program ever to be devoted to revivals of one man's work, you can hear the best of Corwin presented in authentic rebroadcasts. They're "live" shows, under the direction of Corwin's erstwhile assistant Joel O'Brien, who's a top-notch director in his own right. Listen in this Tuesday, and every Tuesday, for the best in radio drama.

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

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