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BEST BROADCAST S OF 1938-39
and an actual on-the-scene interview with the workers. Such a program, of course, requires a great deal of advance work and research. A regular research staff supplies factual information, and the writer of the program makes a trip each week to talk with the workers on the job for true stories, color, and human interest. The script is written for the first part^of the broadcast, and an announcer and an engineering staff are sent to the mine or the factory for the first-hand interview in the second half.
Americans at Work is unique among educational programs on the air in giving not only a comprehensive dramatized picture of America’s many jobs but in presenting a personal interview with the workers actually at the scene of those jobs. All of the broadcasts are published in pamphlet form by the Columbia University Press.
Americans at Work has won two awards for its contribution to adult education and for its general excellence — from the Women’s National Radio Committee and from the Tenth Institute for Radio in Education in its convention at Ohio State University in May, 1939. The program printed in the following pages is typical of a long series of successful broadcasts, in which dramatization, narration, and interview are combined to present an authentic picture of Americans at work.
The following script is the story of the men who build tunnels — the sandhogs. It was written by Margaret Lewerth, CBS staff writer, who has been responsible for the whole series.
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