William Penn, You are there Radio broadcast
The Reliability of Our Entertainment Media With the new age of Entertainment came a launch of a History-based Dramatization radio show that would take listeners through a portal each week and report of the great events of the past. You are there, a show created by Goodman Ace, was originally called CBS is there and was one of the shows that took hold in households. “They began the show with "live" background coverage of the events unfolding. Then the sounds and characters involved proceeded. Often participants are interviewed, or the show cuts to another reporter 's evaluation of the event” (“You are there”). The events that the show produced, were obviously before radio but the producers strived to bring this re-enactment alive and make it seem as a live reporting. Hosts of the show stayed in character and “uses of sound effects, actors and the reporters "coverage" in an exciting and thought-provoking way” (“You are There”). One could now re-live historical entertainment straight from the comfort of one’s home surrounded by friends and family. With the shows now booming entertainment business, facts were mislaid in a fictional play. With its eighty eighth episode, You Are There reporters take you straight to the court room in Old bailey, London on September 5th 1670 where the controversial case between the crown and William Penn was occurring. Penn himself was a leader of the Quakers, a religious cult banned by the government and forbidden to meet in any building for worship. William Penn took to a quiet street, along with a peaceful group Quakers, for the purpose of worship due to their standing restriction. “Penn and William Mead, were arrested on a charge of disturbing the King 's peace and summoned to stand trial” (“The Trial”). In the broadcast and the title of the episode, Mead, a major character in the trial was not mentioned as being part of the trial. The Episode is called “William Penn Trial Ep.88 “(Goodman) leaving Mead out and without prior
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