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Podcast: Breaking Walls: The Podcast on the History of American Network Radio Broadcasting
Episode: BW - EP60: Home For The Fourth—A History of Independence Day Radio Programming
Description: On episode 60 of Breaking Walls, we present a look at the history of audio in America on the fourth of July in honor of the 241st anniversary of America's Independence Day.
We’ll laugh, we’ll cry, we’ll get angry, and perhaps, we’ll all be able to answer what it means to be an American.
Highlights:
• Norman Corwin Presents: Home for the Fourth, which originally aired on July 4, 1944.
• A little-known tale about how the American Revolution began from 1948
• Jean Sheppard tells Fourth of July fireworks stories from the Limelight in Greenwich Village, New York in 1964.
• Bill Stern tells a tale about thr...