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+ Biography In Sound was a documentary series broadcast from 1954 to 1958 on NBC. Joseph Meyers, a NBC newsman, produced a documentary on Winston Churchill for his 80th birthday, November 30, 1954. It was an instant hit and highly praised by critics. Encouraged by the show's success, Meyers went on to produce another piece on the writer Ernest Hemingway, again to wide critical acclaim. After the third documentary on Gertrude Lawrence, the show was serialized and aired weekely for 60 minutes beginning in February, 1955. Click here to read more about Biography In Sound

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Air Date	Title	Synopsis
09.27.1955	franklin p adams	+ , AFRTS rebroadcast. "F.P.A., His Column and His Friends". A repeat broadcast of the story of Fra...
04.10.1955	franklin delano roosevelt	+ "They Knew President Franklin Delano Roosevelt". The story of the famous president, as a man. Th...
01.08.1957	frank lloyd wright
08.07.1956	frank lloyd wright
01.15.1957	fiorello laquardia
06.26.1956	fiorello laguardia
02.19.1957	f scott fitzgerald
06.28.1955	f scott fitzgerald	+ "This Was F. Scott Fitzgerald". Everett Sloane reading from the works of Fitzgerald. Memories of...
03.20.1955	ethel barrymore	+ , AFRTS rebroadcast. "Meet Ethel Barrymore". A sound portrait of the famous actress. The program ...
01.16.1958	ernie pyle
03.19.1957	ernest hemingway
04.03.1955	ernest hemingway
12.19.1954	ernest hemingway
04.10.1958	eddie rickenbacker
09.10.1957	danny kaye
04.10.1956	connie mack
05.22.1958	clarence darrow
09.18.1956	clarence darrow
09.13.1955	clarence darrow	+ "Clarence Darrow For The Defense". People who knew Darrow remember the Scopes Trial, Eugene V. D...
03.26.1957	carl sandburg
05.29.1955	carl sandburg
02.20.1955	carl sandburg	+ "Meet Carl Sandburg". The system cue has been deleted. The program was rebroadcast on May 25, 19...
08.14.1956	biography in rhythm
07.26.1955	biography in rhythm
08.16.1955	babe ruth	+ "The Legend Of The Babe". The story of the famous baseball player, well told! Part of the progra...

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Featuring the complete existing series of this NBC program that featured bios on many people from the past & present as of the 1950s. It was broadcast on NBC from 1954 to 1958 (except for the 1964 special program that is included). It was produced by the NBC News Department, and narrated by many then current NBC newscasters.

BIOGRAPHY IN SOUND