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An American in England

6 episodes · 1942 · CBS · Historical

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Norman Corwin wrote and directed this six-part series about wartime Britain, made in England with Edward R. Murrow as producer and Joseph Julian as narrator: women war workers, American soldiers arriving, a seaside town near the enemy, London under the war, and the trip home.

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1942

• Women of Britain August 24, 1942 · CBS · 30 min
  Wartime London as seen by the women who have taken over the jobs of men away in the forces. Made in Britain and heard here by shortwave.
• The Yanks Are Here August 31, 1942 · CBS · 30 min
  American soldiers arrive in wartime England.
• Cromer December 1, 1942 · CBS · 28 min
  A sleepy English seaport, the nearest English town to Nazi Germany, and what the war has done to it.
• Home Is Where You Hang Your Helmet December 8, 1942 · CBS · 30 min
  A portrait in sound of London at war, with pianist Myra Hess.
• An Anglo-American Angle December 15, 1942 · CBS · 28 min
  Part drama, part documentary, about the hard conditions of wartime England, with Edna Best and Edward R. Murrow.
• Clipper Home December 22, 1942 · CBS · 29 min
  The trip home from London to America under wartime conditions; the last of the six programs.