“WNYC, New York City’s own station, will revive the dramas presented and written by the ‘Free Company’ last year. The programs will be broadcast on Friday afternoons, beginning January 23rd at 5 to 5:30 P.M. Written by some of the outstanding names in American literature, the program was devoted to dramatizing the benefits of democracy. Shortly after its inception over the Columbia Broadcasting System, the program came under fire from the American Legion. The protests were withdrawn, however, when it was learned that the broadcasts were produced with the sanction of the United States Government.

"Among the works to be presented in the series are The States Talking by Archibald MacLeish, The Mole on Lincoln’s Cheek by Marc Connelly, Freedom’s A Bought Thing by Stephen Vincent Benet and People With Light Coming Out of Them by William Saroyan. Actors for the show will come from leading Broadway plays and the programs will be directed and produced by Mitchell Grayson.”

Source: "WNYC Revives Dramas of Democracy," by Jean Walker,  Daily Worker, January 22, 1942, p. 7.
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"The problem of adapting WNYC programs to the requirements of the listeners' psychology will be made from a scientific analysis of the mail reponse received by the Municipal Broadcasting Station."

Source: New York City Commissioner for Plant and Structures (WNYC's parent agency) Frederick Kracke in a press release, December, 1936.
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If you see one of these: WQXR Pipe Stands, let us know!
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Remembering Singer and Folklorist Guy Carawan.
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The Construction of the Great Bridge, Uniting Brooklyn and New York.