World War One - A Radio Exploration

WWI Radio
A Farewell To Arms - Clark Gable - Josephine Hutchinson - Hemingway - Lux Radio Theater
On the Italian front during World War I, Lieutenant Frederic Henry, an American architect serving as an officer on an ambulance in the Italian Army, delivers some wounded soldiers to a hospital. While out carousing with his friend, Italian Captain Rinaldi, they are interrupted by a bombing raid. Frederic and English Red Cross nurse Catherine Barkley.

The Christmas Truce - BBC Witness
The Christmas truce was a series of widespread unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front of the First World War around Christmas 1914.

Eddie Rickenbacker - Biography in Sound
America's Top WWI Fighter Ace
Edward Vernon Rickenbacker was an American fighter ace in World War I and a Medal of Honor recipient. With 26 aerial victories, he was the United States' most successful fighter ace in the war and is considered to have received the most awards for valor by an American during the war. He was also a race car driver and automotive designer, a government consultant in military matters and a pioneer in air transportation, particularly as the long-time head of Eastern Air Lines.

War Clouds WWI - Grantland Rice Story
Henry Grantland Rice was an early 20th-century American sportswriter known for his elegant prose. His writing was published in newspapers around the country and broadcast on the radio. This program shares Grantland's experiences in the Army in WWI.

The Pacific Story - WWI in the Pacific
The Pacific Story was broadcast on NBC at 11:30pm, with the first broadcast on July 11, 1943. The series lasted 184 weeks with two weeks pre-empted and ended on January 26, 1947. It was considered a documentary. The premise of the show was that with Europe in ruins, the Pacific might emerge as the center of political and social change in the world, and people should know something about it. The series touched on every nation around the Pacific rim and told of their importance in the years to come when the war ended. It was narrated by Gayne Williams and featured such authorities on Pacific affairs as Henry Luce and Pearl S. Buck

Prayer in Wartime - Fulton Sheen
Fulton John Sheen was an American bishop (later archbishop) of the Catholic Church known for his preaching and especially his work on television and radio. Ordained a priest of the Diocese of Peoria in 1919,

Goodbye Mr. Chips - Screen Guild Theater - Basil Rathbone & Greer Garson
Due to a cold, retired schoolteacher Mr. Chipping (Robert Donat) misses a first-day assembly at Brookfield public school for the first time in 58 years. That afternoon he falls asleep in his chair and his teaching career is related in flashback. Chips finally retires in 1914 at the age of 69 saying "Haec olim meminisse iuvabit (One day, we'll look back on this and smile)", but is summoned back to serve as interim headmaster because of the shortage of teachers resulting from the First World War.

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