About a month before this lecture -- during a five-hour, all-night radio marathon debate in New York City -- Neville debated Rabbi Silver, an actor whose name is lost in the transcript, and the younger Oursler (son of Fulton Oursler, author of The Greatest Story Ever Told), with a moderator identified only as '[...] John'. The broadcast provoked such an overwhelming audience reaction -- ringing phones, mail, and telegrams -- that listeners were still writing to the program two to almost three weeks afterward, even though the show aired six nights a week.