Words at War — 1945

Correspondent Robert St. John's reflections on the war and the peace still to be won.

A drama of resistance and survival through a single perilous night behind enemy lines.

Beverley Nichols' controversial survey of India under the Raj and the case for and against its independence.

Polish courier Jan Karski's first-hand account of the underground state and his eyewitness report of the Nazi extermination he carried to the West.

The daring escape of ten American and Filipino prisoners from a Japanese prison camp in the Philippines.

Louis Nizer's proposals for handling a defeated Germany, broadcast the day the Yalta Conference results were announced.

The Navy's own narrative of the first six months of the Pacific war, from the wreckage of Pearl Harbor to the turning tide at the Coral Sea.

A collection drawn from military chaplains on the faith that sustained servicemen in combat.

A wartime drama of hope and reconciliation carried by its symbol of the rainbow after the storm.

William Bradford Huie's story of the Navy's Seabees -- the construction battalions whose motto 'Can Do' built the bases that won the Pacific.

A forward-looking drama on the world the war's sacrifice was meant to build; cited by Variety as one of radio's most outstanding programs.

A drama drawn from the air war, its title evoking the keening of aircraft over their targets.

A dramatized brief for Lord Beveridge's plan of government-managed full employment after the war -- a limited-cast, organ-scored program that drew sponsor and industry complaints of one-sidedness.

Glenway Wescott's novel of a Greek family forced to billet a German officer in their Athens flat under occupation.

A drama on a gap in the Allied or enemy defenses -- the 'back door' left open -- and the campaign that exploited it.

A tribute to Ernie Pyle -- killed six days earlier -- through his 'Brave Men' dispatches from Italy and France, honoring the ordinary infantryman he wrote for.

A tense drama of a fugitive in hiding in occupied Europe and the family that shelters him at mortal risk.

A dramatized presentation of Friedrich Hayek's warning that central economic planning leads toward tyranny -- programmed as a free-market rebuttal to the earlier Beveridge broadcast.

An expose of the black markets and profiteers who cashed in on shortages while the country was at war.

A look ahead at the returning serviceman's hard passage back to civilian life and work.

The series signs off with Russell Davenport's book-length patriotic poem, a closing meditation on the nation's ideals as the war in Europe ended.