[COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM WWII RADIO BROADCAST, PEOPLE TO PEOPLE, BURLINGTON, VERMONT, APRIL 1944] COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM, TRANSATLANTIC CALL, PEOPLE TO PEOPLE, #62, Burlington, Vermont, April 9, 1944, 12:30-1:00PM (EWT), typescript manuscript, original ribbon copy, 8-1/2” x 11”, 32 pages held by paperclip at upper left corner /// NOTES: “44-04-09 Wisconsin State Journal - 11:30 a.m.--Transatlantic Call (WBBM): story of New England in maple sugar time…44-04-08 THE COLOR and romance of maple syrup time in New England is brought to British and American listeners on the CBS-BBC exchange program ‘Transatlantic Call, People to People’ Sunday over KGLO-CBS at 11:30 a.m. Originating in the new studios of WCAX, Burlington, Vt., the program centers about a typical New England farm family as its members collect the sap and prepare the syrup.” (program note for an audio of this program at the website The Digital Deli Too); “CBS and the BBC launched ‘Transatlantic Call: People to People’ during World War II as an exchange series of 13 radio programs designed to bring the two nations closer together and to tell the people of each country how their friends and allies are living, working and fighting. This event culminated a week-long work-a-thon whose goal was to bring together scholars to apply their skills to the transcription, annotation, contextualization, digitization and preservation of ‘Transatlantic Call’ and other related broadcast materials being brought online by the American Folklife Center. Event Date, September 22, 2017” (Library of Congress note for 2017 symposium on various aspects of the joint CBS-BBC wartime program); “In an effort to bridge the gap of understanding, CBS and the BBC, in cooperation with the Office of War Information, began collaborating in Transatlantic Call: People to People. As originally conceived, the programs were to be produced on either side of the pond every other week. CBS took the effort seriously enough to assign Norman Corwin  to the project; however, Corwin had to drop out of the project after three episodes due to illness. Folklorist Alan Lomax was tapped as Corwin's replacement.” (note at the website Old Time Radio Catalog for page on Transatlantic Call: People to People) /// PROVENANCE: the script was among Gerald Kean career working papers and memorabilia acquired in Fairfield County, Connecticut, GERALD KEAN, 1915-2002, had a long and diverse career in media and the entertainment field as a director, producer, writer, and occasional actor active from the 1930s to 1980s, he was a primary writer of Hyman Brown’s CBS Radio Mystery Theater, during WWII he worked in the U. S. Army Office of War Information /// CONDITION: well-preserved, limited wear.