Old-time radio

Details for An American in England


Episode Data from GOLDIN
Episode NameEpisode #Air DateNotes
Women of Britain1942-08-24The program originates from Britain and is heard in the United States via shortwave. A moving portrait of wartime London, from the point of view of the women workers who are taking the place of men who are away in the army. The system cue was possibly added live, the program sounds as if it were being played back from 78 r. p. m. transcriptions.
The Yanks Are Here1942-08-31A six-part portrait of American G.I.'s in wartime England. Well done. Excellent shortwave audio.
Cromer1942-12-01A portrait of a sleepy little seaport which happens to be the closest English town to Nazi Germany, and how it has been affected by the war. This is possibly a rebroadcast from earlier that year, as the program was first heard during the summer of 1942. See cat. #4886 for the same script broadcast May 9, 1944. The program closing has been deleted. British origination. See cat. #61583 and #64303 for Lyn Murray conducting the incidental music he wrote for this program.
Home Is Where You Hang Your Helmet1942-12-08A sound portrait of wartime London. A rebroadcast of a program heard earlier in the summer of 1942. There were apparently six programs in the original summer series.
An Anglo-American Angle1942-12-15A lyrical drama/documentary, originating in Britain, about the stark conditions in wartime England.
Clipper Home1942-12-22A fascinating narrative of a trip from London to America under wartime conditions. The last of a series of six programs broadcast as part of "The Columbia Workshop."