OLD TIME RADIO REVISITED - "The Fall Of The City" by Archibald MacLeish (Ep 23-14)
b"\\u201cThe Fall of The City\\u201d by Archibald MacLeish Starring Orson Welles and Burgess Meredith\\n\\nFascism is a slippery word. It\\u2019s meaning changes and is nuanced with each incarnation. Fascist leaders copy other fascists , and use what is expedient to control the people.\\n\\nWe present the audio drama \\u201cthe Fall of the City\\u201d by Archibald MacLeish.\\nProduced by the Columbia Workshop for CBS Radio and presented on April 11th, 1937.\\nThis experimental radio play was a sensation when broadcast in the spring of 1937, and made an overnight radio star of 22 year-old Orson Welles. The New York Times selected \\u201cthe Fall of the City\\u201d as one of the best radio broadcasts of 1937.\\n\\nThe Fall of the City\\nBy Archibald MacLeish\\nRecorded at the drill hall of the Seventh Regiment Armory in New York City on April 11th, 1937.\\nBroadcast by CBS radio.\\nA production of The Columbia Workshop.\\n\\nThe Cast includes:\\nHouse Jameson as the studio director\\nOrson Welles as the Announcer\\nAdelaide Klein as the Voice of the Dead Woman\\nCarleton Young as the First Messsenger\\nBurgess Meredith as The Orator\\nWith 200 extras to voice the crowds\\n\\u201cthe City has fallen\\u201d was directed by Irving Reis with music by Bernard Herrmann.\\n\\nDON'T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE!\\nFor more great Audio Visit:\\nhttp://www.RedfieldArtsAudio.com"