Destination Freedom

Last Edited: 01-Jun-2017
A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
Broadcast source is BBC Radio Four unless otherwise indicated. Recording quality is considered good unless otherwise indicated.

US black history/civil rights series, 1948-1950, then a patriotic series, 1950-1951.

Date Title Cast Parameters
NBC Radio
01-Aug-1948
6 The Key To Freedom (Frederick Douglass, part 2)
written by Richard Durham
29:23, 6854, M
15-May-1949
45 The Ballad of Satchel Paige

29:09, 6832, M
17-Jul-1949
53 Tales of Stackalee

30:04, 7047, M
31-Jul-1949
55 The Trumpet Talks (Louis Armstrong)

30:32, 7158, M
07-Aug-1949
56 The Long Road (Mary Church Terrell)

30:17, 7098, M
04-Sep-1949
60 The Saga Of Senator Blanche K Bruce

30:03, 7042, M
06-Nov-1949
69 The Man Who Owned Chicago (Jean Baptiste Point DuSable)

29:48, 6984, M
15-Jan-1950
74 The Birth of A League (The Story of the Urban League)

30:08, 7064, M
12-Mar-1950
82 Premonition of the Panther (Sugar Ray Robinson)

30:48, 7220, M
11-Jun-1950
93 The Shy Boy (Thomas "Fats" Waller)

29:39, 6951, M
02-Jul-1950
96 Kansas City Phone-Call - The Cole Story (Nat "King" Cole)

29:35, 6936, M
13-Aug-1950
repeat of
#31
30-Jan-1949
102 Last Letter Home

30:03, 7042, M

Documentaries and Collateral Material
Date Title Cast Parameters