| Brave New World Part 1 | | 1956-01-27 | The first show of the series, which was accurately named, "CBS Radio Workshop." Because of a quirk of the English language, it's almost impossible to mention this name in the middle of a sentence without adding the word, "The." Each program in this series was actually presented on three consecutive days, as well as being syndicated on tape. This was to accomodate the varying schedules of different stations.The classic story of the future, narrated by the author. |
| Brave New World Part 2 | | 1956-02-03 | The conclusion of the famous story of the future, narrated by the author. |
| The Storm | | 1956-02-10 | William Conrad is superb, the music is excellent, the sound effects are great, the writing is perfect! Radio should be proud of this one! The cast sounds like a roll call of CBS Hollywood regulars. The system cue has been deleted. |
| Season of Disbelief, Hail and Farewell | | 1956-02-17 | null |
| A Colloquy #1: an Interview With Shakespeare | | 1956-02-24 | Who really wrote the works of William Shakespeare? Christopher Marlowe, Sir Francis Bacon and the 17th Earl Of Oxford all duke it out with Mr. Shakespeare. |
| Voice of the City | | 1956-03-02 | Tony Schwartz captures the common sounds that unmistakenly portray, "New York City." |
| Report on E.S.P: a Study of Clairvoyance, Telepathy and Extra Sensory Perception | | 1956-03-09 | Dramatizations of true cases of telepathy and discussions of investigations into the possibilities of E.S.P. |
| Cops and Robbers | | 1956-03-16 | A crime is solved on the air. Real cops...not-so-real robbers. The system cue has been deleted. |
| The Legend of Jimmy Blue-Eyes | | 1956-03-23 | A great New Orleans-style jazz band is featured. A story of a low down man who played the blues, told in verse. |
| The Exurbanites | | 1956-03-30 | A chilling (but true) horror story about the problems of living in the suburbs. |
| Speaking of Cinderella, or If the Shoe Fits | | 1956-04-06 | A well-done, fun look at the old story told the conventional way, and then a modern "Madison Avenue" style version. Cool daddy! |
| Jacob's Hands | | 1956-04-13 | A good story about a farm hand who discovers he has the power to heal. |
| Portrait of a Tycoon | | 1956-04-20 | A sound portrait of William Zeckendorf, a New York real estate magnate. |
| The Record Collectors | | 1956-04-27 | John Dehner interviews two record collectors who play some items from their collections. The whole show is a hoax. The idea was previously used on an audition program on September 29, 1952 (see cat. # ). |
| The Toledo War | | 1956-05-04 | The "civil war" that became "the first was between the states." An 1835 dispute about a small strip of land that happen to contain the city of Toledo. Both Michigan and Ohio claimed the real estate. An original opera. |
| The Enormous Radio | | 1956-05-11 | A newly purchased radio picks up voices from neighboring apartments instead of regular broadcasts. |
| Lovers, Villains and Fools | | 1956-05-18 | A Shakespearean sampler of the actor and his craft. |
| The Little Prince | | 1956-05-25 | A charming fantasy about the little visitor from planet B-212, with plans to bring things up to date. |
| A Matter of Logic | | 1956-06-01 | A cleverly written, albeit somewhat confusing show about a radio program rehearsal all about nothing...which is something. |
| Bring on the Angels | | 1956-06-08 | A dramatization of the wild days of newspaper journalism at the turn of the century. Told autobiographically by H. L. Mencken, broadcast shortly after his death. |
| The Stronger | | 1956-06-15 | A "pre-release performance" of a one-act, one-voice opera that was chosen by The American Chamber Music Committee to be "given a major performance on record as part of the 'Columbia Modern American Composer'" series. Goddard Lieberson (President of Columbia Records) introduces the "chamber opera" based on a play by Strindberg. By far, the worst piece of music I've ever heard broadcast! The system cue is added live. |
| Another Point of View, or Hamlet Revisited | | 1956-06-22 | An analytical misrepresentation of Shakespeare's greatest hero. A fascinating reading of the play, with interpretations somewhat different than the Bard had in mind. |
| The Eternal Joan | | 1956-06-29 | . |
| This Is Paris | | 1956-07-06 | David Schoenbrun's sound portrait of the city, produced by William N. Robson. Very well-done, the show truly captures a Parisian flavor through fine radio journalism. |
| The Case of the White Kitten | | 1956-07-13 | A satire of detectives shows that doesn't quite make it. |
| Portrait of London | | 1956-07-20 | Sarah Churchill (daughter of the former Prime Minister) describes her home town in sound. A well-done answer to her own question, "What does London mean to me." |
| Starboy | | 1956-07-27 | A beautifully done retelling of the Blackfoot Indian legend about The Morning Star who takes an Indian girl from Earth to be his wife. |
| Subways Are for Sleeping | | 1956-08-03 | A fine adaptation of the fascinating short story about a homeless man (but not a bum!) in New York. |
| Only Johnny Knows | | 1956-08-10 | A look at child rearing in America since Colonial times. How things have changed, and how they have not changed. |
| Colloquy Two: 'Dissertation on Love' or 'Boy Meets Girl' | | 1956-08-17 | An amusing look at love, from an American, British, and French point of view. |
| The Billion Dollar Failure of Figure Fallop | | 1956-08-24 | A very well-done tale about the day the devil hired a pollster to find out how many folks would be entrusted to his care in the next twenty years. |
| Colloquy Three: an Analysis of Satire | | 1956-08-31 | Stan explains the art of satire to a skeptical censor and illustrates the explanation with his own recordings. |
| The Hither and Thither of Danny Dither | | 1956-09-07 | An original musical comedy about Danny, a messenger from the Department of Faith, Hope, and Charity who comes to Earth for a very special reason. |
| A Pride of Carrots or Venus Well Served | | 1956-09-14 | A very well-written, clever allegory about the first astronauts to land on Venus and the talking vegetables that live there. |
| The Oedipus Story | | 1956-09-21 | A study of the dramatic character and psycho-analytical look at excessive mother-love from Sophocles to Eugene O'Neill. |
| Roughing It | | 1956-10-05 | Written by and "narrated" by Samuel Clemens. A do-it-yourself kit for Western movies. Good radio and a fine adaptation of Mark Twain. |
| A Writer at Work | | 1956-10-12 | A fascinating look behind the scenes at a writer of radio scripts. Live recordings made of Hector Chevigny (whose most famous assignment was, "The Second Mrs. Burton") as he actually writes an episode of the show. |
| The Legend of Annie Christmas | | 1956-10-19 | A very well-written story about a legendary giant Negress who started as a slave but who became a heroine to her people. |
| When the Mountain Fell | | 1956-10-26 | A French drama about a shepherd, who apparently returns from the dead, two months after being buried alive by an avalanche. An adaptation of the French novel, "Derborence," by Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz. |
| 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue | | 1956-11-02 | A dramatized documentary about the White House and some of its residents. The show is well-written and performed but no acting credits are given. |
| Colloquy Four: the Joe Miller Joke Book | | 1956-11-04 | A well-done drama/documentary about the history of jokes, including a fictionalized visit from the venerable Joe Miller himself! |
| Report on the We'ans | | 1956-11-11 | A portrait of our culture, as it might appear to those six thousand years in the future. |
| The Sounds of a Nation | | 1956-11-18 | Our national history, told in sound. |
| The King of the Cats | | 1956-11-25 | A symphonic conductor with a tail! and therein lies the tale! |
| The Day the Roof Fell in | | 1956-12-02 | A psychological and funny look at the do-it-yourselfer. |
| I Was the Duke (A Portrait of a Juvenile Delinquent) | | 1956-12-09 | A shocking interview with a genuine criminal. The language is unedited and somewhat surprising for a 1956 broadcast. Excellent radio with no expletives deleted. |
| The Big Event | | 1956-12-16 | A fantasy about the world crisis created when the "Law of Averages" is repealed for twenty-four hours. See cat. #96099 for a network version of this program. |
| The Big Event | | 1956-12-16 | A fantasy about the world crisis created when the "Law of Averages" is repealed for twenty-four hours. This is a network version of cat. #19107. |
| All Is Bright | | 1956-12-23 | The story of how "Silent Night" came to be written and became world famous. Excellent Christmas radio. |
| No Time for Heartaches | | 1957-01-13 | Sophie tells the story of her career in show business and her personal philosophies. |
| Fire at Malibu | | 1957-01-20 | The true story of a destructive California fire and efforts to control it. |
| The Crazy Life | | 1957-01-27 | This is about a funny man, who isn't really, and his wife who doesn't love him, but really does. |
| La Grande Gretche | | 1957-02-03 | The premier broadcast of a one-act opera. Based on the classic of infidelity by Balzac. |
| 1489 Words | | 1957-02-10 | William Conrad reads poems and prose by Alfred Noyes ("The Highwayman"), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Sonnet #43), Thomas Wolfe ("The Thunder Of Imperial Names") and "Silence," a Japanese "Tanka" poem of only seven words. The system cue has been deleted. |
| The Space Merchants | | 1957-02-17 | Part One. The science fiction classic of the future in the grip of "Madison Avenue." How to "sell" the colonization of Venus. |
| The Space Merchants | | 1957-02-24 | Part Two. The science fiction classic of the future in the grip of "Madison Avenue." How to "sell" the colonization of Venus. |
| The Ballad of the Iron Horse | | 1957-03-03 | An excellent story told in verse by William Conrad about a railroad locomotive and its experiences during the Civil War and the westward expansion. Superb radio. The system cue is added live. |
| Air Raid | | 1957-03-10 | A rebroadcast of the verse play originally heard on The Columbia Workshop in 1938 (see cat. #4852) predicting the civilian horrors of World War II. Compare this production (which includes an incongruous civil defense public service announcement) to the earlier one. |
| The Endless Road | | 1957-03-17 | A fable about a highway built in a circle, going nowhere! Then, one day, the road connects with the outside world. |
| Harmonica Solo | | 1957-03-24 | A well-written World War II combat story. |
| Adopting a Dog | | 1957-03-31 | Tony Schwartz, with his ever-present portable tape recorder decides to adopt a dog and finds that there's more to it than first appears. Tony's usually fine actuality tapes tell the story. |
| Noh Plays of Japan | | 1957-04-07 | An adaptation of fourteenth century Japanese drama. Excellent classic storytelling, superb performances, great radio. |
| Carlotta's Serape | | 1957-04-14 | The verse-drama won the first prize in a competitionheld by The Academy Of American Poets. |
| The Son of Man | | 1957-04-21 | A passion play with music by Bach. |
| Lightship | | 1957-04-28 | A drama about a group of men aboard a lightship in a fog face boredom, madness, and disaster on a reef. |
| Nightmare | | 1957-05-05 | An experimental drama vividly portraying the stuff of nightmares. Interesting listening. This is a network version of cat. #17022. |
| Nightmare | | 1957-05-05 | An excellent, well-written radio montage of a man's dreams. Good radio. AFRTS program name: "Playhouse Twenty-Five." See cat. #49861 for a network broadcast version of this program. |
| The Long Way Home | | 1957-05-12 | A look at a future we hope will never be. |
| Heaven Is in the Sky | | 1957-05-19 | A documentary look at the January 31, 1957 mid-air collision of a DC-7B and a Scorpion jet over Pacoima, California. The wreckage landed in a schoolyard. |
| I Have Three Heads | | 1957-05-26 | "A study of the techniques, the possibilities, and the improbabilities of tape recording." An absolutely fascinating exploration of some of the tricks possible with tape recorders, as narrated by an Ampex Tape Recorder. Put together by CBS engineer Mort Goldberg (later an executive), it features a band playing "Tea of Two" frontwards and backwards at the same time. |
| Epitaphs (Spoon River Anthology) | | 1957-06-02 | null |
| The Seven Hills | | 1957-06-09 | A portrait of Rome and her people, well told to two tourists by a strange one. |
| Housing Problem | | 1957-06-16 | A fascinating story about a bird cage with a little house inside it, and some wee folk in residence inside the house...but they pay their rent! |
| A Time to Live | | 1957-06-23 | "Meditations Of The Ecclesiastes" is featured, conducted by Alfredo Antonini. Senator John Kennedy is also heard. The composer of "Meditations," Norman Dello Joio won the 1957 Pulitzer Prize in music for this composition. |
| Battle of Gettysburg | | 1957-06-30 | A dramatic recreation of the great battle. |
| You Could Look It Up | | 1957-07-07 | The classic short about the day a midget played major league baseball. The story was also dramatized on "The Hallmark Playhouse" of May 12, 1949 (see cat. #23196), July 7, 1957 on "Yarns For Yanks" (see cat. #39368) and "Favorite Sports Stories Of Grantland Rice" on January 15, 1944 (see cat. # ). |
| The Silent Witness | | 1957-07-14 | An excellent tour-de-force trial drama. Done with only one voice, that of the only performer on the show, Raymond Burr. All other roles on this courtroom drama are played by the listener's imagination. This was what radio was all about! |
| The Green Hills of Earth | | 1957-07-21 | The beautiful science fiction story about Reisling, the blind poet of the spaceways. Compare this production to the "Dimension X" version (cat. #3838). |
| Never Bet the Devil Your Head | | 1957-07-28 | An amusing "Twain-esque" tale about Toby Dammit, who took a certain gentleman's name in vain once too often. AFRTS program name: "Playhouse 25." See cat. #47821 for a quality upgrade, network, sustaining version of this broadcast. |
| Never Bet the Devil Your Head | | 1957-07-28 | An amusing "Twain-esque" tale about Toby Dammit, who took a certain gentleman's name in vain once too often. Quality upgrade, network, sustaining version of cat. #19128. |
| The Heart of Man | | 1957-08-04 | Early heart surgery...as seen from the point of view of the heart! |
| Malahini Magic | | 1957-08-11 | A radio sound picture of the "tropical paradise" of Honolulu, through the eyes of two newly-arrived tourists. |
| The Celestial Omnibus | | 1957-08-18 | A young boy's ride on the stagecoach to Heaven. Good radio. |
| Sweet Cherries in Charleston | | 1957-08-25 | The disease of "Freedom," and how it spread among the slaves of South Carolina. |
| Grief Drives a Black Sedan | | 1957-09-01 | A motorist has hit something on a dark road, and has kept on driving. The story is taken from, "A Letter To The Man Who Killed My Dog," by Richard Joseph. AFRTS rebroadcast name: "Mystery Theatre." |
| People Are No Good | | 1957-09-08 | Great radio writing, dedicated to anyone who ever got up on the wrong side of the bed. A man on a desert island...Manhattan! |
| Time Found Again | | 1957-09-15 | Good story about a man displeased with the present, who falls in love with a woman from the past. |
| Young Man Axelbrod | | 1957-09-22 | An old Norwegian man decides to go to Yale. The last show of the series. |
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