Air Raid - Prevarications of Mr Peeps

From Hollywood, the CBS Radio Workshop. Air Raid by Archibald McLeish. CBS Radio presents the CBS Radio Workshop, dedicated to man's imagination, the theater of the mind. Nineteen years ago, the workshop was honored to produce Air Raid, a new verse play written especially for it by the distinguished American poet Archibald McLeish.

In this work Mr. McLeish foresaw the nature of World War II, and prophesied that it would be waged against defenseless civilians. Today when the concern of every man of goodwill is for the safety and defense of his fellows, Mr. McLeish's play seems even more stirringly true than it did nearly two decades ago.

The workshop is once more proud to present William N. Robeson's production of Air Raid, A verse play for Radial by Archibald McLeish. When you hear the gong sound, the time will be 10 seconds past 2 AM precisely.

W, CBS, New York. Ladies and gentlemen, you have only one thought tonight, all of you, you who fish the fathoms of the night with poles on rooftops and long loops of wire. Those of you who are driving from some visit finger the button on the dashboard dial until the metal trembles like a medium in a trance, and tells you what

is happening in France, or China, or in Spain, or some such country. You have one thought tonight and only one, will there be war? Has war come? Is Europe burning from the tiber to the Somme? You think you hear the sudden double thudding of the drum? You don't though.

But now, but what your ears will hear within the hour no one living in this world would try to tell you. We take you there to wait it for yourselves. Stand by, we'll try to take you through.