• Radio brought the news directly into listeners’ living rooms. Among the major news stories broken on radio: the Scopes monkey trial, carried live by Chicago station WGN in 1925; the Hindenburg zeppelin disaster, covered by WLS Chicago in 1937; and Edward R. Murrow’s CBS reports on the Blitz of Britain, airing in 1940.

CBS Radio Workshop

Broadcast History: 27 January 1956 to 22 September 1957

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:

CBSRW 560127 01 Brave New World 1o2
 6.7 MB

CBSRW 560203 02 Brave New World 2o2
 6.65 MB

CBSRW 560210 03 Storm
 6.47 MB

CBSRW 560217 04 Season of Disbelief & H
 6.61 MB

CBSRW 560224 05 Interview with Shakespeare
 6.91 MB

CBSRW 560302 06 Voice of New York
 6.52 MB

CBSRW 560309 07 Report on ESP
 4.98 MB

CBSRW 560319 08 Cops & Robbers
 6.57 MB

CBSRW 560323 09 Legend of Jimmy Blue Eyes
 6.85 MB

CBSRW 560330 10 The ExUrbanites
 6.34 MB

CBSRW 560406 11 Speaking of Cinderella
 6.86 MB

CBSRW 560413 12 Jacob's Hands
 5.03 MB

CBSRW 560427 14 The Record Collectors
 6.54 MB

CBSRW 560504 15 The Toledo War opera
 6.91 MB

CBSRW 560511 16 The Enormous Radio
 6.56 MB

CBSRW 560518 17 Lovers, Villians & Fools
 7.03 MB

CBSRW 560525 18 The Little Prince
 7.13 MB

CBSRW 560601 19 A Matter of Logic
 6.49 MB

CBSRW 560608 20 Bring on the Angels
 6.55 MB

CBSRW 560615 21 The Stronger opera
 6.98 MB

CBSRW 560622 22 Another Point of View
 6.74 MB

CBSRW 560629 23 The Eternal Joan
 6.96 MB

CBSRW 560706 24 Portrait of Paris
 6.88 MB

CBSRW 560713 25 Case of White Kitten
 7.23 MB

CBSRW 560720 26 Portrait of London
 6.67 MB

CBSRW 560727 27 Star Boy
 6.87 MB

CBSRW 560803 28 Subways are for Sleeping
 6.88 MB

CBSRW 560810 29 Only Johnny Knows
 6.77 MB

CBSRW 560817 30 A Dissertation on Love
 6.78 MB

CBSRW 560824 31 Billion Dollar Failure of Fi
 6.75 MB

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