A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin

 

Norman Corwin: Already in his thirties, he was a living legend 

Re-posted by Nicholas Stix

Thanks go to my chief of research for this find. We’d heard this speech at the beginning of the first episode of Rich Man, Poor Man, on VE Day. Thereafter, he replayed the speech in the episode ten or so times, wrote down as much as he could, and googled it.
 


 

Uploaded on Jan 20, 2012

On the evening of VE Day, May 8, 1945, Norman Corwin, known as the "poet laureate of radio drama," presented a radio program that galvanized and electrified the nation. The broadcast, "On a Note of Triumph," was a moment that would mark the end of a long national struggle, and, in another sense, set a new standard for the art of radio drama. Featuring interviews with Robert Altman, Norman Lear, Studs Terkel and Walter Cronkite, A NOTE OF TRIUMPH: THE GOLDEN AGE OF NORMAN CORWIN examines the greatest radio presentation in the history of radio. For more information, go to www.directcinema.com

Thanks to directcinemalimitedfor the upload.
 

Corwin, presumably as he neared the century mark. Note the caricatures of him on the wall.