Editing Rex Stout (section)

==Select radio credits==
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| February 28, 1939
| [[Blue Network|NBC]]
| 30 min.
| ''[[Information Please]]''
| Cast: [[Clifton Fadiman]] (host), [[John Kieran]], [[Franklin P. Adams]], [[Heywood Broun]], Rex Stout<ref name="Grams Info Please">
{{cite book |last=Grams |first=Martin Jr. |author-link=Martin Grams Jr. |date=2003 |title=Information, Please |url= |location=Albany, Georgia |publisher=BearManor Media |isbn=0-9714570-7-7}}</ref>{{Rp|155}}

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| March 28, 1939
| NBC
| 30 min.
| ''Information Please''
| Cast: Clifton Fadiman (host), John Kieran, Franklin P. Adams, Rex Stout, Moss Hart<ref name="Goldin Info"/>
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| August 29, 1939
| NBC
| 30 min.
| ''Information Please''
| Cast: Clifton Fadiman (host), John Kieran, Franklin P. Adams, Rex Stout, [[Wilfred John Funk|Wilfred J. Funk]]<ref name="Goldin Info">{{cite web |url=http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=Information%20Please |title=Information Please |publisher=RadioGOLDINdex |access-date=2015-03-20 |archive-date=2014-02-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222132525/http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=Information%20Please |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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| September&nbsp;26,&nbsp;1939
| NBC
| 30 min.
| ''Information Please''
| Cast: Clifton Fadiman (host), John Kieran, Franklin P. Adams, Rex Stout, [[Carl Clinton Van Doren|Carl Van Doren]]<ref name="Goldin Info"/>
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| September&nbsp;27,&nbsp;1940
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| ''Democratic Women's Day''
| Radio address from a dinner sponsored by the Women's National Democratic Club<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/myday/displaydoc.cfm?_y=1940&_f=md055696 |title=My Day |last=Roosevelt |first=Eleanor |author-link=Eleanor Roosevelt |date=September 28, 1940 |website=The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project |publisher=[[George Washington University]] |access-date=2015-03-21}}</ref><br>Speakers: [[Eleanor Roosevelt]], [[Thornton Wilder]], [[Robert E. Sherwood|Robert Sherwood]], [[Edna Ferber]], Rex Stout, [[Alice Duer Miller]], Dr. Frank Kingdon, [[Katharine Hepburn]], [[Marc Connelly]], [[Elmer Rice]], [[Frank Sullivan (writer)|Frank Sullivan]], Henry Curren<ref name="Eleanor Roosevelt">{{cite web |url=http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/utteranceser.html |title=Recorded Speeches and Utterances by Eleanor Roosevelt, 1933–1962 |publisher=Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum |access-date=2015-03-21}}</ref>
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| April 17, 1941
| [[NBC Red Network|NBC]]
| 15 min.
| ''Speaking of Liberty''
| Stories of memorable events in the lives of America's founders<ref name="Hickerson">Hickerson, Jay, ''The Ultimate History of Network Radio Programming and Guide to All Circulating Shows''. Hamden, Connecticut: Jay Hickerson, Box 4321, Hamden, CT 06514, second edition December 1992</ref>{{Rp|373}}<br>First of an estimated 29 weekly broadcasts continuing through December 11, 1941, produced in cooperation with the Council for Democracy<br>Guests include [[Louis Adamic]], [[Herbert Agar]], [[Pearl S. Buck]], [[Erskine Caldwell]], [[Carl Carmer]], [[Stuart Chase]], [[Frank Craven]], [[Carl Crow]], [[Ève Curie]], [[Max Eastman]], [[Edward Ellsberg]], Clifton Fadiman, [[Louis Fischer]], [[Dorothy Canfield Fisher]], [[Frank Gervasi]], [[Florence Jaffray Harriman]], [[Fannie Hurst]], [[Margaret Leech]], [[Walter Millis]], [[Bertrand Russell]], [[John R. Tunis]], Carl Van Doren, [[Pierre van Paassen]], Thornton Wilder, [[Alexander Woollcott]], [[Lin Yutang]]<br>Cast: Rex Stout (host), Milton Cross and others (announcers)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.digitaldeliftp.com/DigitalDeliToo/dd2jb-Speaking-of-Liberty.html |title=Speaking of Liberty |publisher=Digital Deli Too |access-date=2015-03-21}}</ref><ref name="Archive Liberty">{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/SpeakingOfLiberty |title=Speaking of Liberty |publisher=[[Internet Archive]] |access-date=2015-03-21}}</ref>
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| April 18, 1941
| NBC
| 30 min.
| ''Information Please''
| Cast: Clifton Fadiman (host), John Kieran, Franklin P. Adams, Rex Stout, Henry H. Curran (chief magistrate of Manhattan)<ref name="Goldin Info"/>
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| September 26, 1941
| NBC
| 30 min.
| ''Speaking of Books''
| Discussion of [[Jan Valtin]]'s ''Out of the Night'', from the 51st annual conference of the [[New York Library Association]]<br>Cast: [[Irita Bradford Van Doren|Irita Van Doren]], [[Lewis Gannett]], Rex Stout, Jan Valtin<ref name="McAleer"/>{{Rp|291–292}}<ref>{{cite news |date=September 27, 1941 |title=Librarians on Air with Valtin Book |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1941/09/27/archives/librarians-on-air-with-valtin-book-author-says-he-would-choose.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=2018-07-06 }}</ref>
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| January 1942
| [[CBS Radio|CBS]]
| 30 min.
| ''Invitation to Learning''
| Discussion of ''[[The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes]]''<br>Cast: [[Mark Van Doren]] (moderator), Rex Stout, [[Jacques Barzun]], [[Elmer Davis]]{{efn|Transcript published in ''The New Invitation to Learning'' (1942)<ref>{{cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |year=1942 |chapter=The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |editor-last=Van Doren |editor-first=Mark |title=The New Invitation to Learning |location=New York |publisher=[[Random House]] |publication-date=1942 |pages=235–251 |oclc=2143609 }}</ref>}}<ref name="Townsend"/>{{Rp|121}}<ref name="McAleer"/>{{Rp|298}}
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| April 5, 1942
| [[Blue Network|Blue]]
| 15 min.
| ''[[Behind the Mike]]''
| Stout is interviewed by host [[Graham McNamee]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.digitaldeliftp.com/DigitalDeliToo/dd2jb-Behind-The-Mike.html |title=Behind the Mike |publisher=Digital Deli |access-date=2015-04-02 |archive-date=2015-06-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150623053530/http://www.digitaldeliftp.com/DigitalDeliToo/dd2jb-Behind-The-Mike.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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| April 8, 1942
| [[WMCA (AM)|WMCA]]
| 15 min.
| ''The Voice of Freedom''
| Broadcasting anonymously, Stout inaugurates this weekly commentary series presented by [[Freedom House]]<ref>{{cite magazine |date=April 11, 1942 |title=Program Reviews: The Voice of Freedom |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IQwEAAAAMBAJ&q=Voice+of+Freedom+1942+WMCA&pg=PT7 |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|The Billboard]] |volume=54 |issue=15 |page=8 |access-date=March 22, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |date=January 2, 1943 |title=Local Station Wartime Programming |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QwwEAAAAMBAJ&q=Rex+Stout+Voice+of+Freedom&pg=PT25 |magazine=The Billboard |volume=55 |issue=1 |page=26 |access-date=March 22, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/MC187/c00938 |title=Freedom House Records 1933–2014, The Voice of Freedom |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=Princeton University Library Finding Aids |publisher=Princeton University |access-date=March 22, 2015}}</ref><br>"Program packs plenty of punch … handled expertly by 'Mister X'" (''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'')
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| August 9, 1942
| CBS
| 15 min.
| ''[[Our&nbsp;Secret&nbsp;Weapon]]''
| Counterpropaganda series in which "lie detective" Stout rebuts the most entertaining [[Axis powers|Axis]] shortwave lies of the week<br>First of 62 weekly broadcasts continuing through October 8, 1943, produced by [[Paul White (journalist)|Paul White]] for CBS and Freedom House<br>Cast: Rex Stout, Paul Luther, Guy Repp, Ted Osborne, John Dietz (director)<ref name="Townsend"/>{{Rp|121–122}}<ref name="Goldin Secret">{{cite web|url=http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=Our%20Secret%20Weapon |title=Our Secret Weapon |publisher=RadioGOLDINdex |access-date=2015-03-20}}</ref><ref name="Dunningota">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fi5wPDBiGfMC&dq=%22Our+Secret+Weapon,+counterpropaganda%22&pg=PA529 |last=Dunning |first=John |title=On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio |section=Our Secret Weapon |date=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York, NY |isbn=978-0-19-507678-3 |page=529 |edition=Hardcover; revised edition of ''Tune In Yesterday'' (1976) |access-date=2025-01-16}}</ref>
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| January 23, 1943
| CBS
| 30 min.
| ''The People's Platform''
| "Is Germany Incurable?"<br>Writers' War Board panel discussion marking the tenth anniversary of Adolf Hitler's rise to power<br>Cast: Rex Stout, Alexander Woollcott, [[Marcia Davenport]], Hunter College president George Shuster, [[Brooklyn College]] president [[Harry Gideonse]]<ref name="McAleer"/>{{Rp|318–319}}<br>Woollcott is stricken midway through the broadcast and dies a few hours later<ref name="McAleer"/>{{Rp|319–320}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://library.brooklyn.cuny.edu/pages/archives/findaid/Woollcott/BioWoollcott.html |title=Biographical Note, Letters of Alexander Woollcott |publisher=Brooklyn College Library and Archives |access-date=2015-03-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141009205954/http://library.brooklyn.cuny.edu/pages/archives/findaid/Woollcott/BioWoollcott.html |archive-date=2014-10-09 }}</ref>
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| March 30, 1943
| [[Mutual Broadcasting System|Mutual]]
| 30 min.
| ''This Is Our Enemy''
| Series produced by Frank Telford for the [[United States Office of War Information]]<ref>Dunning, op. cit., [https://books.google.com/books?id=EwtRbXNca0oC&dq=%22This+Is+Our+Enemy+dramatic%22&pg=PA666 "This Is Our Enemy" p. 666]</ref><br>"Axis Propaganda Methods"<br>Stout introduces dramatizations that show how the enemy uses propaganda to weaken American morale<br>Cast: Rex Stout, [[Jackson Beck]], [[Arnold Moss]], Charlotte Holland, Irene Hubbard, Lenny Hoffman, [[Peter Capell]], Ian Martin, Bill Martin, Ed Latimer, [[Ted Jewett]], Guy Repp, Nathan Van Cleve (composer, conductor)<ref name="Goldin Enemy">{{cite web|url=http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=This%20Is%20Our%20Enemy |title=This Is Our Enemy |publisher=RadioGOLDINdex |access-date=2015-03-20}}</ref>
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| April 27, 1943
| Mutual
| 30 min.
| ''This Is Our Enemy''
| "March to the Gallows"<br>Stout addresses the audience at the end of a program dramatizing the stories of well-known traitors including [[Vidkun Quisling]]<ref name="Goldin Enemy"/>
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| October 13, 1943
| [[WEPN (AM)#WHN|WHN]]
| 30 min.
| ''Author Meets the Critics''
| A discussion with John Roy Carlson, author of ''Under Cover: My Four Years in the Nazi Underworld of America''<br>Cast: [[Max Lerner]], [[Victor Riesel]], Rex Stout<ref name="DD Author">{{cite web|url=http://www.digitaldeliftp.com/DigitalDeliToo/dd2jb-Author-Meets-The-Critics.html |title=Author Meets the Critics |publisher=Digital Deli |access-date=2015-04-02}}</ref>
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| February 2, 1944
| WHN
| 30 min.
| ''Author Meets the Critics''
| A discussion with [[Louis Nizer]]<br>Cast: John K. M. McCaffrey (host), Russell Hill, Rex Stout<ref name="DD Author"/>
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| March 5, 1944
| [[Cumulus Media Networks|ABC]]
| 30 min.
| ''Wake Up America''
| "What Should Be Done With Defeated Germany?"<br>Debate between Rex Stout and Paul Hagen,{{efn|Paul Hagen is the pseudonym adopted by Karl Boromäus Frank, a member of the underground in Nazi Germany<ref>{{cite journal |last=Woolbert |first=Robert Gale |date=October 1945 |title=Germany After Hitler |url=http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/110534/paul-hagen/germany-after-hitler |journal=[[Foreign Affairs]] |volume=24 |issue=October 1945 |publisher=[[Council on Foreign Relations]] |access-date=2015-03-25}}</ref>}} author of ''Germany After Hitler''<ref name="Goldin Wake">{{cite web|url=http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=Wake%20Up%20America |title=Wake Up America |publisher=RadioGOLDINdex |access-date=2015-03-20}}</ref>
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| October 24, 1944
| ABC
| 30 min.
| ''Wake Up America''
| "Does Any National Emergency Justify a Fourth Term?"<br>Rex Stout and commentator Upton Close take questions<ref name="Goldin Wake"/>
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| March 24, 1945
| CBS
| 30 min.
| ''A Report to the Nation''
| Program includes an interview with Rex Stout after his return from Europe, where he asked Germans what they thought about democracy<br>Cast: [[John Daly (radio and television personality)|John Daly]] (host), [[Richard C. Hottelet]], Rex Stout, [[Brian Aherne]], [[Clare Boothe Luce]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=A%20Report%20To%20The%20Nation |title=A Report to the Nation |publisher=RadioGOLDINdex |access-date=2015-03-20}}</ref>
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| 1945
| Synd
| 30 min.
| ''Win the Peace''
| Wartime roundtable discussion about the proposals for a United Nations organization<br>Cast: Edgar Ansel Morra (foreign correspondent), Harry Gideonese, Rex Stout, [[Virginia Gildersleeve]], William Agar (acting president of Freedom House)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=Win%20The%20Peace |title=Win the Peace |publisher=RadioGOLDINdex |access-date=2015-03-20}}</ref>
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| December 5, 1946
| Mutual
| 30 min.
| ''Author Meets the Critics''
| Cast: John K. M. McCaffrey (host), [[Paul Gallico]], Virgilia Peterson, Rex Stout<ref name="Hickerson"/>{{Rp|27}}<ref name="DD Author"/>
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| January 2, 1949
| NBC
| 30 min.
| ''[[Author Meets the Critics]]''
| A discussion of ''Larks in the Popcorn'' with guest author [[H. Allen Smith]]<br>Cast: John K. M. McCaffrey (host), [[Eloise McElhone]], Rex Stout<ref>{{cite web|url=http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=Author%20Meets%20The%20Critics |title=Author Meets the Critics |publisher=RadioGOLDINdex |access-date=2015-03-20}}</ref>
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| October 12, 1950
|
| 30 min.
| ''United World Federalists''
| Report on the fourth annual meeting of the United World Federalists<br>Cast: Jean Putnam, Rex Stout, [[William O. Douglas]], [[Raymond Gram Swing]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=United%20World%20Federalists |title=United World Federalists |publisher=RadioGOLDINdex |access-date=2015-03-20}}</ref>
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| July 30, 1951
| NBC
| 45 min.
| ''The Eleanor Roosevelt Program''
| Program includes an interview with Rex Stout<ref name="Eleanor Roosevelt"/><ref>Dunning, op. cit., [https://books.google.com/books?id=Fi5wPDBiGfMC&dq=%22Eleanor+Roosevelt+talk%22&pg=PA230 "Eleanor Roosevelt" pp. 230-231]</ref>
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| March 11, 1965
| [[WNYC]]
| 30 min.
| ''Authors and Critics Gathering''
| "What do I think about book reviews and book reviewers?"<br>Stout discusses his concerns about the copyright act and asks critics to write about it<br>Cast: Rex Stout (moderator), [[C. D. B. Bryan]], [[Ralph Ellison]], Muriel Resnick, [[Barbara Tuchman]], [[Edward Albee]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=Authors%20and%20Critics |title=Authors and Critics |publisher=RadioGOLDINdex |access-date=2015-03-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wnyc.org/story/authors-and-critics-gathering/ |title=Authors and Critics Gathering|publisher=WNYC New York Public Radio |access-date=2015-03-21}}</ref>
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| February 14, 1966
| WNYC
| 60 min.
| ''Book and Author Luncheon''
| Program includes Rex Stout discussing ''The Doorbell Rang''<br>Cast: Maurice Dolbier (host), Helen Hayes, William O. Douglas<ref>{{cite web|url=http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=Books%20and%20Authors%20Luncheon |title=Book and Author Luncheon |publisher=RadioGOLDINdex |access-date=2015-03-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wnyc.org/story/rex-stout-helen-hayes-and-william-o-douglas/ |title=Book and Author Luncheon: Rex Stout, Helen Hayes, and William O. Douglas |publisher=WNYC New York Public Radio |access-date=2015-03-21}}</ref>
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