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- h - Through the narrative of the new radio series it is hoped to show that the principles enunciated by Jefferson and other great men of our history, which may have lost meaning for many persons because of their familiarity, were outlined in words actually spoken by living human beings at particular times and places. To a public that, largely because of the Jefferson Heritage, selects its own government and thereby helps to work out the destiny of its own land, the NAEB dramatic offerings will make an effort to bring home the eternal Jeffersonian truth that "The earth belongs to the living generation." ' Hence, it is felt, it can be'assumed that contemporary radio listeners — a cross-section of the voting public— will be easily stimulated to learn what men have done with Jeffersonian principles over the years and what is being done with these principles now. As a mirror of the trend of historic thought and action from an early American predominantly agricultural society in an age of slow transportation and relative physical isolation to a contemporary industrial society closely interlocked with the rest of the world, the NAEB programs will strive to reflect the American ideology as Jefferson saw it. , This ideology is that human considerations come first and that the sanctity of the personality and freedom of the mind are the most precioiis of human possessions* * Quality Is Goal Commenting on the "Jeffersonian Heritage" series of radio programs, Mr. Probst said: ‘ "We are engaged in producing programs of the quality of ‘Henry V* or Sherwood's ’Abraham Lincoln in Illinois,* or MacLeish‘s ‘The Fall of the City.» We are trying to produce programs that are ‘consumer durables. 1 We are trying to produce programs that can be rebroadcast ten or twenty years from now to both our satisfaction and the satisfaction of the listener. "We are doing this really against the whole current of American writing and American commercial radio, which are devoted to the production of programs that are really ‘consumer perishables. 1 --- At no previous time in American radio has there been an occasion when anybody had the funds, or thought it was worthwhile to try to create an outstanding series of programs about Jefferson, or about any other outstanding American . * * «" “The Jefferson Heritage" is based on the research and writings of Prof• Dumas Malone, Columbia University. It is produced and directed by Frank Papp, written by Marton Wishengrad and Milton Geiger, with music by Wladimir Selinsky. It stars Claude Rains• WHAT WILL EDUCATIONAL RADIO DO NOW THAT TELEVISION IS HERE? —— OUR NOVEMBER CONVENTION WILL HELP YOU FIND THE ANSWER