Photo: #Norman Corwin, brilliant writer of radio shows, is shown hunched over his typewriter as he ponders over a script for one of his Tuesday night broadcasts during World War II. He wrote 50 Years After 14 August to commemorate V-J Day.
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Norman Corwin, brilliant writer of radio shows, is shown hunched over his typewriter as he ponders over a script for one of his Tuesday night broadcasts during World War II. He wrote 50 Years After 14 August to commemorate V-J Day. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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Remembering the end of World War Two


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Tomorrow marks the 65th anniversary of Japan's surrender and the end of World War II. To commemorate, Midday is playing "50 Years After 14 August", a radio drama written by Norman Corwin and produced by NPR in 1995 to mark the 50th anniversary of the war's end.

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