Tonight, an annual WFMT tradition dating back to 1963. The program dramatizes Norman Corwin’s prose poem, Overkill and Megalove, a response to the bombing of Hiroshima that deals with the madness of war that leads to the obliteration of the human species. This one of the many award-winning radio plays Studs Terkel created in partnership with longtime station announcer and engineer Jim Unrath.
Hiroshima? Overkill and Megalove (08/20/1963)
Atomic cloud over Hiroshima (from Matsuyama) — 509th Operations Group [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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