Information, Please! (Classic Broadcast: Sept. 4, 1942):Special Guests: Writers Jan Struther & C.S. Forester

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Information, Please! (Classic Broadcast: Sept. 4, 1942):Special Guests: Writers Jan Struther & C.S. Forester
      

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Information, Please! was one of the most popular, and literate, shows on American radio, airing from 1938-1948 and running briefly as a TV show in the early 1950s.  Its format was novel: instead of quizzing contestants from the general public, listeners submitted questions to quiz the experts, and if they stumped the resident eggheads, they won money and (for many years) a set of Encyclopaedia Britannica.  Its master of ceremonies was the warm and witty Clifton Fadiman, literary editor of the New Yorker magazine and a longtime member of Britannica's Board of Editors.

The Britannica Blog is proud to highlight these broadcasts.  So, "Wake Up!"---as the show's announcer would say at the start of each broadcast. "It's Time to Stump the Experts!"
         

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