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We Came This Way

29 episodes · 1944–1945 · NBC · Historical

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An NBC University of the Air series of 1944-45 dramatizing the long struggle for freedom, from Magna Carta to the nineteenth century, first from New York with narrator John W. Vandercook and later from Chicago with Clifton Utley.

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Episodes

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1944

• A Story of Magna Carta October 6, 1944 · NBC · 30 min
  How the barons forced King John to sign Magna Carta. Narrated by John W. Vandercook.
• A Story of the Revolt of the Peasants October 13, 1944 · NBC · 30 min
  The English Peasants' Revolt of 1381, led by Wat Tyler.
• A Story of Freedom in Flanders October 20, 1944 · NBC · 30 min
  Peter the weaver and the fight for freedom in Flanders.
• The Story of Andreas October 27, 1944 · NBC · 30 min
  A Greek story told with Katina Paxinou, made with the Greek War Relief Association.
• Joan of Arc November 3, 1944 · NBC · 30 min
  A G.I. tells the story of Joan of Arc.
• The Freedom of Men's Minds November 10, 1944 · NBC · 30 min
  The long fight for freedom of thought.
• The Dutch Break the Dikes November 17, 1944 · NBC · 30 min
  The Dutch break their dikes.
• A Battle Without Armor November 24, 1944 · NBC · 30 min
  The Puritan revolution in England.
• Voice in the Wilderness December 1, 1944 · NBC · 30 min
  The founding of Rhode Island: a voice in the wilderness.
• Voltaire December 8, 1944 · NBC · 30 min
  Voltaire's fight against intolerance. From Chicago.
• Valley Forge December 15, 1944 · NBC · 28 min
  The story of Valley Forge. From Chicago.
• Lafayette - Lamp Lighter of Liberty December 21, 1944 · 28 min
• The French Revolution December 28, 1944 · 29 min

1945

• Tadeusz Kosciuszko January 5, 1945 · NBC · 27 min
  Tadeusz Kosciuszko, the Polish patriot who fought for American independence.
• Poet of Liberty January 12, 1945 · NBC · 28 min
  The life of the poet Percy Shelley.
• John Bright January 19, 1945 · NBC · 28 min
  John Bright, the British Quaker orator and reformer.
• The First Underground (The Carbonari) January 26, 1945 · 27 min
• The Story of Giusieppe Mazzini, Another Step Toward Liberalism February 2, 1945 · NBC · 27 min
  The life of Giuseppe Mazzini, who worked for a united Italy.
• The Second French Republic February 9, 1945 · NBC · 28 min
  The Second French Republic, or how the common man became a citizen.
• The Story of a Boy Named Carl February 16, 1945 · NBC · 28 min
  A boy named Carl grows up to become Carl Schurz, German-born Union general and U.S. senator. The last show of the first season.
• The Story of Alexander Petoff July 12, 1945 · 28 min
• Victor Hugo July 19, 1945 · NBC · 28 min
  How Victor Hugo helped France toward freedom.
• Walt Whitman, Poet of Democracy July 26, 1945 · NBC · 28 min
  Walt Whitman, poet of democracy.
• The Story of Aleksandr Herzen and His Fight Against Tyrrany August 2, 1945 · NBC · 28 min
  Alexander Herzen and his fight against tyranny in Russia.
• The Story of Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Hero of Two Worlds August 9, 1945 · NBC · 28 min
  Giuseppe Garibaldi, the hero of two worlds.
• The Story of Kossuth, the Struggle for Independance August 16, 1945 · NBC · 28 min
  Lajos Kossuth and Hungary's struggle for independence in 1848-49.
• The Story of Leo Tolstoy August 23, 1945 · NBC · 28 min
  The life of Leo Tolstoy.
• The Story of Leon Gambetta and the Birth of a Republic August 30, 1945 · NBC · 28 min
  Leon Gambetta leads France through the Franco-Prussian War and the birth of a republic.
• Emile Zola: the Pen Is Mightier Than the Sword September 6, 1945 · NBC · 28 min
  Emile Zola and the power of the pen.