The Author Meets the Critics

Mutual

In December 1942, the Mutual Broadcasting Network began airing a program called The Author Meets the Critics . This was a literary roundtable discussion program in which well-known authors were placed between two critics, and spirited debate would follow. Authors as wide-ranging as Charles Jackson, William L. Shirer, Eleanor Roosevelt, Al Capp, Arthur Miller, and John Dos Passos were invited to sit as critics praised and derided them. The author would then defend the book. It is quite extraordinary that a program of this nature actually aired for so long on national radio. Fortunately, there are at least 46 episodes I have been able to find.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.

Chapters

Author Meets The Critics 48-08-29 So This Is New York	29:57
Autobiography Of Saul Bloom	29:57
The Troubled Midnight	30:02
The Secret History Of The War	28:39
Anything Can Happen	29:53
Youngin'	14:54
Brainstorm	30:01
Belvedere	29:38
Richer By Asea	29:49
Vespers In Vienna	29:57
The Harder They Fall	29:48
Star Spangled Mikado	29:38
You're The Boss	29:51
Adversary In The House	29:42
Or Forfeit Freedom	30:01
Grenedine Etching	29:58
Miracle Of The Bells	29:59
A Guide To Confident Living	29:57
Baseball	29:52
The Time Of Your Life	29:57
The Comics, Very Funny	29:54
Tomorrow Everything Will Be Better	29:53
Gertrude Stein	29:55
Family Circle	29:54
The Crusaders	29:58
I Didn't Know It Was Loaded	30:00
An Affair Of State	29:57
The Schmo	29:59
The Wild Country	29:59
The Sealed Verdict	30:00
The Wayfaring Stranger	29:57
Our New National Labor Policy	29:59
Warlords Of Washington	29:55
So Far, So Good	29:54
A Man Called White	29:58
Larks In The Popcorn	29:58
An Act Of Love	29:56
The Flesh Of Mary Duncan	29:56
The Embers Still Burn	29:57
China, The Land And The People	29:55
American Argument	30:01
Shalom Means Peace	29:53
The Mad Woman Of Chaillot	30:00
No Place To Hide	29:58
The Fires Of Spring	29:59
A Treasury Of The Spoken Word	29:55