The Age of Classic Radio was a time of innovation and experimentation in radio drama. A direct descendant of The Columbia Workshop, The CBS Radio Workshop not only continued to push boundaries in terms of utilizing story, music, voice and more in exciting, modern ways, it broke new ground in radio drama. From having author Aldous Huxley narrate the adaptation of his 'Brave New World' for the show's debut to 'interviewing' William Shakespeare to turning a stirring folk ballad into a mix of rhyme and performance by William Conrad in The Legend of Jimmy Blue Eyes, The CBS Radio Workshop set the standard for modern audio drama. Blending sound effects with story, music with voice, and quality with substance, CBS Radio Workshop, Volume 1 shows how boundless storytelling can be with audio drama.
The popular CBS Radio Workshop series is back with Volume 2! This seven hour set contains fourteen radio dramas, including children's author, lyricist and playwright Edward Eager's "The Toledo War"; an adaptation of the best-selling "The Little Prince", Antoine de Saint-Exupery's most famous work which was autobiographical; John Cheever's "The Enormous Radio", which allows a family to hear what goes on in their neighbor's residences; "A Matter of Logic", in which writer-director Anthony Ellis and announcer William Conrad struggle to deal with a script. Blending sound effects with story, music with voice, and quality with substance, the episodes on CBS Radio Workshop, Volume 2 shows how boundless storytelling can be with audio drama.
Volume 3 of the CBS Radio Workshop includes "Subways are for Sleeping", an adaptation of the novel by Edmund Love, who actually slept on the subways in the Fifties; "An Analysis of Satire" by Stan Freberg, best known today for his voice actor work with Warner Brothers animation; "A Pride of Carrots, or Venus Well Served", by Robert Nathan, best known for films made from his novels (The Bishop's Wife, and Portrait of Jennie); he also contributed "Report on the Weans", which "documents" what future archaeologist might deduce about twentieth century life by examining its artifacts; an adaptation of Mark Twain's Roughing It, a semi-autobiographical travelogue; "The Legend of Annie Christmas", the title role of which was played by Amanda Randolph, the first African-American actress to star in a regularly scheduled network television show.
Volume 4 of CBS Radio Workshop includes "All Is Bright", a history of the famous Christmas song; "1489 Words", based on a text piece by Thomas Wolfe and adapted by Jerry Goldsmith; a two-part adaptation of Frederick Pohl and Cyril M. Cornbluth's The Space Merchants; Archibald MacLeish's "Air Raid", the series' only re-broadcast, which had first been written for the 1938 Columbia Workshop; Henry Fritch's "The Endless Road", about a road to nowhere being built in the Caribbean and the corruption surrounding its construction; "A Dog's Life", which was the actual recordings of a pound dog being adopted raised by a man; Elliott Lewis wrote, directed and performed "Nightmare", about a man who suffers from nightmares so bad that he can no longer distinguish sleep from reality.
Volume 5 of CBS Radio Workshop includes "Epitaphs", from Edgar Lee Master's Spoon River Anthology; Norman Dello Joio's "Meditations On Ecclesiastes"), which won the 1957 Pulitzer Prize for music, conducted on the program by Alfredo Antonini; James Thurber's "You Could Look It Up"; Robert Heinlein co-adapted his short story "The Green Hills of Earth; Edgar Allan Poe's "Never Bet the Devil Your Head", a satirical attack on transcendentalism; an adaptation of E. M. Forster's "The Celestial Omnibus"; Richard Durham's "Sweet Cherries In Charleston", which tells the story of the aborted 1822 slave rebellion in Charleston, South Carolina; an adaptation of "Young Man Axelbrod" by Sinclair Lewis, a critic of American society who is probably best remembered for It Can't Happen Here, about the election of a Fascist as the American president.
The Age of Classic Radio was a time of innovation and experimentation, especially in terms of radio drama. A program that took the best of what had come before it and succeeded even further in production, performance, and storytelling actually debuted at the end of Radio's Golden Age. A direct descendant of the Columbia Workshop, CBS Radio Workshop not only continued to push boundaries in terms of utilizing story, music, voice and more in exciting, modern ways, it broke new ground in radio drama. From having author Aldous Huxley narrate the adaptation of his Brave New World for the show's debut, to producing an interview with William Shakespeare, to turning a stirring folk ballad into a mix of rhyme. With a performance by William Conrad in The Legend of Jimmy Blue Eyes, the CBS Radio Workshop set the standard for modern audio drama. The man behind CBS Radio Workshop, which debuted in 1956, was William Froug. Inspired directly by the work on the original Columbia Work shop, Froug put all the pi
The Age of Classic Radio was a time of innovation and experimentation, especially in terms of radio drama. A program that took the best of what had come before it and succeeded even further in production, performance, and storytelling actually debuted at the end of Radio's Golden Age. A direct descendant of the Columbia Workshop, CBS Radio Workshop not only continued to push boundaries in terms of utilizing story, music, voice and more in exciting, modern ways, it broke new ground in radio drama. From having author Aldous Huxley narrate the adaptation of his Brave New World for the show's debut, to producing an interview with William Shakespeare, to turning a stirring folk ballad into a mix of rhyme. With a performance by William Conrad in The Legend of Jimmy Blue Eyes, the CBS Radio Workshop set the standard for modern audio drama. The man behind CBS Radio Workshop, which debuted in 1956, was William Froug. Inspired directly by the work on the original Columbia Work shop, Froug put all the pi
The Age of Classic Radio was a time of innovation and experimentation, especially in terms of radio drama. A program that took the best of what had come before it and succeeded even further in production, performance, and storytelling actually debuted at the end of Radio's Golden Age. A direct descendant of the Columbia Workshop, CBS Radio Workshop not only continued to push boundaries in terms of utilizing story, music, voice and more in exciting, modern ways, it broke new ground in radio drama. From having author Aldous Huxley narrate the adaptation of his Brave New World for the show's debut, to producing an interview with William Shakespeare, to turning a stirring folk ballad into a mix of rhyme. With a performance by William Conrad in The Legend of Jimmy Blue Eyes, the CBS Radio Workshop set the standard for modern audio drama. The man behind CBS Radio Workshop, which debuted in 1956, was William Froug. Inspired directly by the work on the original Columbia Work shop, Froug put all the pi
The Age of Classic Radio was a time of innovation and experimentation, especially in terms of radio drama. A program that took the best of what had come before it and succeeded even further in production, performance, and storytelling actually debuted at the end of Radio's Golden Age. A direct descendant of the Columbia Workshop, CBS Radio Workshop not only continued to push boundaries in terms of utilizing story, music, voice and more in exciting, modern ways, it broke new ground in radio drama. From having author Aldous Huxley narrate the adaptation of his Brave New World for the show's debut, to producing an interview with William Shakespeare, to turning a stirring folk ballad into a mix of rhyme. With a performance by William Conrad in The Legend of Jimmy Blue Eyes, the CBS Radio Workshop set the standard for modern audio drama. The man behind CBS Radio Workshop, which debuted in 1956, was William Froug. Inspired directly by the work on the original Columbia Work shop, Froug put all the pi
The Age of Classic Radio was a time of innovation and experimentation, especially in terms of radio drama. A program that took the best of what had come before it and succeeded even further in production, performance, and storytelling actually debuted at the end of Radio's Golden Age. A direct descendant of the Columbia Workshop, CBS Radio Workshop not only continued to push boundaries in terms of utilizing story, music, voice and more in exciting, modern ways, it broke new ground in radio drama. From having author Aldous Huxley narrate the adaptation of his Brave New World for the show's debut, to producing an interview with William Shakespeare, to turning a stirring folk ballad into a mix of rhyme. With a performance by William Conrad in The Legend of Jimmy Blue Eyes, the CBS Radio Workshop set the standard for modern audio drama. The man behind CBS Radio Workshop, which debuted in 1956, was William Froug. Inspired directly by the work on the original Columbia Work shop, Froug put all the pi
Writers once dreamed of writing novels. Now screenplays top the dream list. Hear two top teachers explain the sometimes ungentle art of writing salable movie and television scripts. This collection contains live recordings of two 90-minute workshops on screenwriting: 1) "Screenwriting: How To Move Your Tale" by Richard Walter, and 2) "Screenwriting Tricks of the Trade: The Workshop" by William Froug.
