I will come back to say more about this program, but I think it is worth listening to as an example of a radio storytelling technique that uses a fictional magazine or newspaper reporter as a “wrapper” or frame to dramatize the story at hand.
In this case it is a profile of the American Negro Theater for a 1944 episode of the New York series, New World a-Coming.
The MP3 copy of this episode is at the internet archive in a collection of uploaded dramatic stories, possibly from a larger collection of fragmentary episodes from the late Jim Beshires, a founder of the Old Time Radio Researchers group, which set about trying to compile complete and near complete sets of radio series that had been circulating on radio collector tapes and as digital files in various internet forums.
This episode was uploaded to the Internet Archive as part of a collection titled “Great Stories, Great Storytellers Collection, Part Two” compiled
by Larry Mauplin and Alan Litsey, 2024-01-21.
For their notes on this and 20 other stories, see the collection at the Internet Archive:
Newspaper Heroes on the Air 