Landing the Big One

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Saturday, January 21, 2017

Saturday Is Old Radio Day:The Pacific Story and "Islam in the Pacific" (1945)

About:
The Pacific Story was broadcast on NBC at 11:30pm, with the first broadcast on July 11, 1943.

The series lasted 184 weeks with two weeks pre-empted and ended on January 26, 1947. It was considered a documentary.

The premise of the show was that with Europe in ruins, the Pacific might emerge as the center of political and social change in the world, and people should know something about it.
Here's a presentation about "Islam in the Pacific" from 1945:

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