A Comedy of Danger - Finger of God - Two Plays - Columbia Workshop
First episode of the Columbia Workshop. First presentation of plays on the radio.
"Columbia Workshop is a series of programs dedicated to the Magic of Radio... The Columbia Workshop believes in radio - in its past accomplishments and its promise for the future... Radio has reduced the area of the world to a split second of time for the transmission of human thought and feeling through man's feeling, his literature and his spoken word..."
Columbia Workshop was a radio series that aired on the Columbia Broadcasting System from 1936 to 1943, returning in 1946–47.
The series began as the idea of Irving Reis. Reis had begun his radio career as an engineer and developed a fascination with the possibilities of the relatively new medium. His idea was to use experimental modes of narrative to enhance the way a narrative was conveyed over the radio. Reis had isolated attempts to experiment on the radio: Before the Columbia Workshop's debut, he had directed at least a few radio dramas. For Reis, the Columbia Workshop was a platform for developing new techniques for presentation on radio as noted in the debut broadcast:
"The Columbia Workshop dedicates itself to the purposes of familiarizing you with the story behind radio, both in broadcasting, as well as in aviation, shipping, communication and pathology, and to experiment in new techniques with a hope of discovering or evolving new and better forms of radio presentation, with especial emphasis on radio drama; to encourage and present the work of new writers and artists who may have fresh and vital ideas to contribute"
Episode 1
Originally broadcast 7/18/1936
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