Showcase #32 – Columbia Workshop – On a Note of Triumph

Philip Robotham — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 21:47:39 +0000

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As a bookend to Norman Corwin’s famous “We hold these Truths” broadcast (showcased here a few weeks ago) we thought you might enjoy “On a Note of Triumph”. In this episode Corwin celebrates the close of the war in Europe. For those of us who were born after the terrible years of the second world war it is hard to imagine the relief that victory brought. In the immediate aftermath of the war optimism was high, the horrors of the death-camps were now known, the cold war had not yet begun, and the threat from Japan still remained. Celebration was mixed with grief over the extraodinary loss of life and the prospect of more losses to come. This broadcast is an extraodinary window into the experience of those days. If we feel a shudder at some of the more obvious elements of propaganda in the piece, it is also hard to miss how little we have learned from the horror of that war.

Audio cover for Columbia Workshop – On a Note of Triumph

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Showcase #32 – Columbia Workshop – On a Note of Triumph