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One World Flight

Networks
CBS (as its archives name them)
Heard
1947
Episodes
12

ONE WORLD FLIGHT

More about it

One World Flight consisted of 13 episodes which aired on CBS radio on Tuesday night from 14 Jan – 8 Apr 1947. The documentary series was produced by Norman Corwin who was the recipient of the first One World Award by the Wendell Willkie Memorial and the Common Council for American Unity. First prize was a round-the-world trip. According to Time Magazine article of Monday, 27 Jan 1947, Norman Corwin began his trip in Jun 1947. He took with him CBS Recorder Lee Bland and 225 pounds of magnetic wire-recording equipment. The trip lasted four months, covered 42,000 miles and they visited 16 countries which produced 100 hours of recorded interviews. He interviewed heads of state and common people, people of all types regardless status or walks of life. The transcript alone produced 3700 typed pages. Norman Corwin, four recording engineers and six typists took three months to develop this documentary series. Each program covered a portion of the trip and made an important contribution to the public perception of the rest of the world to help heal some of the wounds of World War II.

Brief History of the One World Award

Wendell Willkie was lawyer by trade and a Democrat

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. Introduction to One World Flight

    · No. 1 · 30 min

  2. Great Britain

    · No. 2 · 30 min

  3. Western Europe

    · No. 3 · 29 min

  4. Sweden and Poland

    · No. 4 · 30 min

  5. Czechoslovakia

    · No. 6 · 30 min

  6. Italy

    · No. 7 · 30 min

  7. Egypt and India

    · No. 8 · 30 min

  8. India, Shanghai and Other Far Eastern Cities

    · No. 9 · 30 min

  9. The Phillipines

    · No. 10 · 30 min

  10. Australia

    · No. 11 · 30 min

  11. New Zealand

    · No. 12 · 30 min

  12. Final Summary

    · No. 13 · 29 min

Where it comes from 1

The archive items its episodes are played from, best first, with each one’s rights as its archive states them. An episode two sets both hold is played from the first.

  1. One World Flight - Single Episodes

    Old Time Radio Researchers · Old Time Radio Researchers Group · 12 episodes here · archive.org

    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0, as its uploader states it at the Internet Archive.

A set by the Old Time Radio Researchers Group (otrr.org), at the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio collection.

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