Summary: Alan The Reporter (Aired December 6, 1944) The Alan Young Show received two Emmy Awards during its run. Young was born Angus Young in North Shields, Northumberland, to John Cathcart Young, a shipyard worker, and Florence Pinckney, whose ancestors included a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence. The family moved to Edinburgh when Young was a toddler, and later to West Vancouver, British Columbia, when Young was six years old. He came to love radio when bedridden as a child because of severe asthma. Near the start of his radio career, during World War II, Young attempted to enlist in the Royal Canadian Navy, then the Canadian Army, but was rejected due to his ill health. THIS EPISODE: December 6, 1944. "Alan The Reporter" - The Blue network origination, AFRS rebroadcast. Alan decides to become a newspaper reporter. Bea Wain's first song is, "Music Makes Me." The final AFRS music fill and system cue have been deleted. Alan Young, Bea Wain, Kenny Delmar, Peter Van Steeden and His Orchestra, Jack Kirkwood. 30:18. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.
