The Eternal Light
| Catalogue Number | 15980 |
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| Program Number | 1 |
| Date | October 08, 1944 |
| Title | "A Rhode Island Refuge" |
| Description | The first show of the series. A portrait of colonial Rhode Island and a moral decision regarding the slave trade. The script would be produced again on, "The Eternal Light" on November 11, 1945 (see cat. #110809) and on October 13, 1963 (see cat. #112603). After-drama speaker: Edgar Nathan Jr., Borough President of Manhattan and Acting Chairman of the Radio Committee of The Jewish Theological Seminary of America. |
| Artists | Alexander Scourby, Bernard Lenrow, Rod Hendrickson, Roger De Koven, Adelaide Klein, Gregory Morton, Morton Wishengrad (writer), Ira Avery (director), Henry Brant (composer), Henri Nosco (conductor), David Putterman (cantor), Tex Antoine (announcer, billed as "Jon Antoine"), Edgar Nathan Jr., Milton Krentz (the executive producer of "The Eternal Light" from this first program, through every show broadcast until he died in the year 2000) |
| Source | NBC net |
| Sponsor | Sustaining |
| Quality | Excellent |
| Complete | Complete |
| Duration | 29:42 |