This recording is the sixteenth episode of the United Nations Radio series Easy as ABC, an educational series for children written by Gerald Kean and produced by UNESCO and United Nations Radio. Although broadcast internationally, this is a recording of the American broadcast. The series is hosted by Frank Gallop and David LeGrant, who voice the characters named Alpha and Beta. This episode concerns the letter V for volumes, featuring Rita Hayworth, Judy Holliday, Eddie Cantor, Claude Dauphin, Kenny Delmar, Cedric Hardwicke, Bob Hope, Fred MacMurray, J. Carrol Naish, and Basil Rathbone. The guests provide voices for a variety of different books in a library, who discuss the value of books, UNESCO's copyright protections, and the UNESCO Book Coupon initiative.