What happens
In July 1937, Dean Huang and his students at Nankai University in China hurriedly pack books and papers as Japanese forces approach. Their campus is bombed and then shelled, and the university is destroyed. Other institutions are seized or wrecked, so Chinese universities move inland. At Sun Yat-sen University, Dr. Joe Wei-Ging and the students carry equipment up the Pearl River and overland to new sites in Free China. There, scholars and students rebuild with makeshift labs and salvaged books, and education is also taken to farmers and guerrilla troops. Dr. Lyman Wilbur then reflects on what universities mean for China. The Pacific Story, presented by the National Broadcasting Company, with commentary by Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, aired on October 10, 1943.
China, 1937 to 1943: the Nankai University campus, the Pearl River, and inland universities in Free China
Characters: Dean Huang, Wang, Lo, Dr. Joe Wei-Ging, Dr. Chong, Dr. Chen, Wang Chenlin, Dr. Lyman Wilbur
Listen for: The Japanese artillery barrage on the library and the students' escape by river and truck
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.