CORWIN WILL VISIT N.Z.

New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 366, 28 June 1946, Page 17

CORWIN WILL VISIT N.Z.

award from the United States Institute of Education, as a writer who has "demonstrated the cultural, artistic, and socially important uses of radio," Norman Corwin has again been honoured, this time as the first recipient of the Wendell Willkie "One World" Award. The award takes the form of a world flight and, for New Zealanders, interest in this new distinction for Corwin lies in the fact that he will arrive in Auckland, in the course of his flight, on September 28. He will stay four days in the Dominion. His mission, according to advice received by the Department of External Affairs, will be a cultural one, intended to facilitate the interchange of goodwill between the peoples of the world in general, and artists in particular. He will be accompanied by a technical assistant. During the war, Corwin was a pioneer in the field of international radio with such programmes as "Transatlantic Call" and "An American in Russia," and his style of radio presentation will be familiar to New Zealanders who heard "You Can’t Do Business with Hitler," "This Is War,’ or "We Hold These Truths," all of which have been presented from the Commercial stations. In A ewan the holder of an

1942 he visited England at the invitation of the BBC, and produced several shows there: Already he has had a marked influence on other writers for radio on both sides of the Atlantic, and Derek Prentice (formerly of the BBC and now in Melbourne) has announced his intention of applying the Corwin technique to the Australian scene.