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Power of Sound

Season 1 Episode 1 | 1m 05s

Norman Corwin talks about the power of sound.

Funding Provided by: General Motors Corporation, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting;PBS; the National Endowment for the Humanities
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Against the backdrop of radio’s Golden Age, Empire of the Air tells the history of radio.