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Veteran Voices Drama: In The House Where I Was Born

Heard
2015
Episodes
1

Through the impressionistic narration of an “unknown soldier”—a representational everyman—this radio drama pays homage to the common soldier and all who have died in military service. The show has been described as “a montage of memories—childhood homes, friends, family, war, death—that link the present with the past, the living with the dead, and form the cultural ties that bind communities together.” Others have said that the play “conquers time and space with an ease and flair.”

More about it

Written and directed by WWI veteran Wyllis Cooper for ABC Radio, the original 30-minute broadcast aired live on Memorial Day 1949. Our current production is a sound-stage adaptation that closely follows the original story and sound design. An added scene updates the story to include the Korean and Vietnam Wars, with special reference to Pittsburgh and actual lines from our oral history archive.

Produced by Kevin Farkas

Directed by Dennis Schebetta

Musical Score Adaptation by Pat Blackburn

Script Adaptation & Audiography by Kevin Farkas

Cast

Dylan Myers (Unknown Soldier

Nancy Bach (Mother)

Elias Vila-Kubiak (Boy)

Claire Sabatine (Bride)

Ken Bolden (Brother/Father)

Jay Londino (Announcer)

Special thanks to the University of Pittsburgh Theatre Arts Department.

Music available on Youtube and Soudcloud: Stephen Griffith (I Ride an Old Paint, Streets of Laredo), Meikel Krieger (Fender Strat with Suhr FL Pickups).

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. In the House Where I Was Born

    No date given · 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. Veteran Voices Drama: In The House Where I Was Born

    Listeners' uploads · Veteran Voices of Pittsburgh Oral History Initiative · 1 episode here · archive.org

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

Uploaded to the Internet Archive by the person named, outside its radio collections.

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