The CBS Radio Workshop was an experimental dramatic radio anthology series that aired on CBS from January 27, 1956, until September 22, 1957. Subtitled “radio’s distinguished series to man’s imagination,” it was a revival of the earlier Columbia Workshop, broadcast by CBS from 1936 to 1943, and it used some of the same writers and directors employed on the earlier series. The CBS Radio Workshop was one of American network radio's last attempts to hold onto, and perhaps recapture, some of the demographics they had lost to television in the post-World War Two era.

The premiere broadcast was a two-part adaptation of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, introduced and narrated by Huxley. It took a unique approach to sound effects, as described in a Time (February 6, 1956) review that week:

It took three radio sound men, a control-room engineer and five hours of hard work to create the sound that was heard for less than 30 seconds on the air. The sound consisted of a ticking metronome, tom-tom beats, bubbling water, air hose, cow moo, boing! (two types), oscillator, dripping water (two types) and three kinds of wine glasses clicking against each other. Judiciously blended and recorded on tape, the effect was still not quite right. Then the tape was played backward with a little echo added. That did it. The sound depicted the manufacturing of babies in the radio version of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.

Music for the series was composed by Bernard Herrmann, Jerry Goldsmith, Amerigo Moreno, Ray Noble and Leith Stevens. Other writers adapted to the series included Robert A. Heinlein, Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, Edgar Allan Poe, Frederik Pohl, James Thurber, Mark Twain and Thomas Wolfe.

EPISODES LIST:

CBSRW560127 - 01 Brave New World Part 1
CBSRW560203 - 02 Brave New World Part 2
CBSRW560210 - 03 Storm
CBSRW560217 - 04 Season of Disbelief and Hail and Farewell
CBSRW560224 - 05 Colloquy #1 - Interview with William Shakespeare
CBSRW560302 - 06 The Voice of New York
CBSRW560309 - 07 Report on E.S.P.
CBSRW560316 - 08 Cops and Robbers
CBSRW560323 - 09 The Legend of Jimmy Blue Eyes
CBSRW560330 - 10 The Exurbanites
CBSRW560406 - 11 Speaking of Cinderella - If the Shoe Fits
CBSRW560413 - 12 Jacob's Hands
CBSRW560420 - 13 Living Portrait - William Zeckendorf, Tycoon
CBSRW560421 - 14 The Record Collectors
CBSRW560504 - 15 The Toledo War
CBSRW560511 - 16 The Enormous Radio
CBSRW560518 - 17 Lovers, Villains and Fools
CBSRW560525 - 18 The Little Prince
CBSRW560601 - 19 A Matter of Logic
CBSRW560608 - 20 Bring on the Angels
CBSRW560615 - 21 The Stronger
CBSRW560622 - 22 Another Point of View - Hamlet Revisited
CBSRW560629 - 23 The Eternal Joan
CBSRW560706 - 24 Portrait of Paris
CBSRW560713 - 25 The Case of the White Kitten
CBSRW560720 - 26 Portrait of London
CBSRW560727 - 27 Star Boy
CBSRW560803 - 28 Subways Are for Sleeping
CBSRW560811 - 29 Only Johnny Knows
CBSRW560817 - 30 Colloquy #2 - A Dissertation on Love
CBSRW560824 - 31 The Billion Dollar Failure of Figger Fallup
CBSRW560831 - 32 Colloquy #3 - An Analysis of Satire
CBSRW560907 - 33 The Hither and Thither of Danny Dither
CBSRW560914 - 34 A Pride of Carrots (Venus Well Served)
CBSRW560921 - 35 The Oedipus Story
CBSRW561005 - 36 Roughing It
CBSRW561012 - 37 A Writer at Work
CBSRW561019 - 38 The Legend of Annie Christmas
CBSRW561026 - 39 When the Mountain Fell
CBSRW561102 - 40 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
CBSRW561109 - 41 Joe Miller Joke Book
CBSRW561111 - 42 Report on the Weans
CBSRW561118 - 43 Sounds of a Nation
CBSRW561125 - 44 The King of the Cats
CBSRW561202 - 45 The Day the Roof Fell In
CBSRW561209 - 46 I Was the Duke
CBSRW561216 - 47 The Big Event (The Law of Averages)
CBSRW561223 - 48 All Is Bright
CBSRW570106 - 49 Carl Sandburgs 79th Birthday
CBSRW570113 - 50 No Time for Heartaches
CBSRW570120 - 51 Fire at Malibu
CBSRW570127 - 52 The Crazy Life
CBSRW570203 - 53 La Grande Breteche (Opera)
CBSRW570210 - 54 1489 Words
CBSRW570217 - 55 Space Merchants Part 1
CBSRW570224 - 56 Space Merchants Part 2
CBSRW570303 - 57 Ballad of the Iron Horse
CBSRW570310 - 58 Air Raid (Prevarications of Mr Peeps)
CBSRW570317 - 59 The Endless Road
CBSRW570324 - 60 Harmonica Solo
CBSRW570331 - 61 A Dogs Life
CBSRW570407 - 62 Noh Plays of Japan
CBSRW570414 - 63 Carlottas Serape
CBSRW570421 - 64 The Son of Man
CBSRW570428 - 65 Light Ship
CBSRW570505 - 66 Nightmare
CBSRW570512 - 67 The Long Way Home
CBSRW570519 - 68 Heaven Is in the Sky
CBSRW570526 - 69 I Have Three Heads
CBSRW570602 - 70 Epitaphs (Spoon River Anthology)
CBSRW570609 - 71 The Seven Hills of Rome
CBSRW570616 - 72 Housing Problems
CBSRW570623 - 73 Meditations on Ecclesiastes
CBSRW570630 - 74 The Battle of Gettysburg
CBSRW570707 - 75 You Could Look It Up
CBSRW570714 - 76 The Silent Witness
CBSRW570721 - 77 The Green Hills of Earth
CBSRW570728 - 78 Never Bet the Devil Your Head
CBSRW570804 - 79 The Heart of the Man
CBSRW570811 - 80 Malihini Magic (Vacations)
CBSRW570818 - 81 The Celestial Omnibus
CBSRW570825 - 82 Sweet Cherries in Charleston
CBSRW570901 - 83 Grief Drives a Black Sedan
CBSRW570908 - 84 People Are No Good
CBSRW570915 - 85 Time Found Again
CBSRW570922 - 86 Young Man Axelbrod
CBSRWxxxxxx - xx Silent Witness
 

 

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