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Daybreak: When Radio Became a Prayer

The Cave of Diamonds, V-J Day, and radio’s forgotten gift for bringing people together

This morning at The Little Station on Commercial Street, we open the listening room with The Cave of Diamonds, a 1973 South African radio drama from Tuesday Theatre, then return to August 1945 and the extraordinary V-J Day edition of Command Performance. Adventure, laughter, relief, remembrance and a prayer of thanksgiving lead to a larger question: What did radio once know how to do that we may have forgotten?

🎯 VJ Day LIVE: The Broadcast That Ended World War II

🎯 VJ Day LIVE: The Broadcast That Ended World War II

On August 15, 1945, the world changed—and you can hear it happen.

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