A "Listener's Guide" for the series is now available for free download. The realities behind The Big Story radio broadcasts were often too shocking for the airwaves. Each week, the series focused on a compelling story from one of America's newspapers, and honored its featured reporter with a cash prize. The series was a big hit from from its very first episode in 1947. Little is known, however, about the behind-the-scenes workings of this blockbuster series, or the full detai

It is from 1952-04-09, episode number 263. It profiles a part-time reporter, Charlie Manning of the Greensboro NC Daily News. Part 1 makes you really desire to hear part 2. Luckily, we have the script as part of the tobacco litigation documents of 20+ years ago. It picks up on p14. This is a link to Manning's original news story as seen in the 1951-03-15 Charlotte NC Observer https://i.servimg.com/u/f61/19/48/94/49/1951-081.png The audio and the script are at https://transfer