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Voice of America Radio Scripts |
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The Voice of America is the flagship U.S. government- |
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funded international broadcaster, producing content for |
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radio, television and the Internet. This collection aims |
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to present a selection of radio scripts spanning almost |
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three decades, before VOA s expansion into other media. |
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These scripts were scanned from microfilm copies in the |
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Library of Congress covering the years 1953 1980 on 113 |
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reels (LOC call number: microfilm 01769). |
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The images have been lightly edited to correct uneven |
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lighting, remove edge shadows, dust speckles and other |
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stray marks, etc., and cropped to standard letter size (8 |
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11 inches). |
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The scripts cover a wide variety of subjects. News |
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Analysis and Backgrounder scripts focus on current events |
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and issues. Other topics include book and film reviews, |
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agriculture, science, new products, American politics, |
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sports, performing arts, etc. |
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This collection notably seems not to include news reports |
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from VOA s overseas correspondents (staff and freelance |
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stringers) or U.S.-based reporters in Washington and |
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around the country. Missing, for example, are the short |
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correspondent reports CRs in newsroom parlance typically |
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running 45 70 seconds and tailored for newscasts. |
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Scripts lacking dateline information, either in the title |
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or introduction, are generally presumed to be datelined |
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Washington, following VOA s move from New York in 1954. |
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In the material reviewed so far, there is no indication |
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of whether a particular script was actually broadcast in |
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English or any other language. (VOA s radio programs have |
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been transmitted around the world in dozens of languages |
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since the service was established two months after the |
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U.S. entry into World War II.) |
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As a 30-year veteran of The Voice, I am pleased to be |
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able to offer what is for now a rather small and not |
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necessarily representative sampling of this material. You |
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may also be interested in four related collections: VOA |
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Newscasts[1] (audio only, 2014 present, plus some earlier |
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examples), VOA Our World[2] (a weekly science magazine |
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program, audio and text, 2004 2010), Voice of America |
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Editorials[3] (text only, 2004 2014), and VOA Music Time |
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in Africa[4] (audio only, 2006 2008). |
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Updated December 7, 2022; typo corrected August 17, 2024 |
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1. VOANewscasts |
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2. voaourworld |
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3. voaeditorials |
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4. voa-music-time-in-africa |
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Date Published: 2022-01-25 23:41:44 |
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Identifier: voa-radio-scripts |
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Item Size: 37294 |
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Media Type: collection |
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# Topics |
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