Episode 006: The Next (Greatest) Generation

Apr 7, 2020
49 mins

Episode Description

In this week's episode, we talk to historian and Augusta University professor Dr. Ruth McClelland-Nugent about connections between the current COVID-19 pandemic and the lessons we can learn from World War 2 public messaging. 

References: 

Introduction from: Britain Can Take It: The British Cinema in the Second World War, New Edition (Cinema and Society), by Tony Aldgate and Jeffrey Richards

Introduction from: We’ll Always Have the Movies: American Cinema During World War II by Robert McLaughlin and Sally E. Perry

Amplifer call for art: https://community.amplifier.org/campaign/global-open-call-for-art/

Churchill “Their Finest Hour” speech

Churchill “The Few” speech

Stock media: Pond5

“I’ll Be Seeing You” performed by Scheele’s Greene, Music by Sammy Fain, lyrics by Irving Kahal

Images: 

Careless talk     Potluck     Keep those hands off     Your pen...an enemy weapon     Hey boy friend     

Your talk may kill     Attack on all fronts  


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