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CBS Radio Workshop - All Night Long!
The CBS Radio Workshop was an experimental dramatic radio anthology series that aired on CBS from 1956-1957. Subtitled “radio’s distinguished series to man’s imagination,” it was a revival of the earlier Columbia Experimental Laboratory (1931), Columbia Experimental Dramatic Laboratory (1932) and Columbia Workshop broadcasts by CBS from 1936 to 1943, and 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 on to, and perhaps recapture, some of the demographics they had lost to television in the post-World War II 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 Time:

"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."

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Jacob's Hands - Huxley
Never Bet The Devil Your Head - Edgar Allen Poe
The Plot to Overthrow Christmas - Norman Corwin
The King Of the Cats - Stephen Vincent Benet
Storm - CBS Radio Workshop - George Stewart - William Conrad
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Grief Drives a Black Sedan
The Day The Roof Fell In - A fun story of a do-it-yourself homeowner!
Season of Disbelief and Hail and Farewell - Bradbury
The Heart of the Man
Bring on the Angels
The Space Merchants
The Eternal Joan - St. Joan of Arc
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Psalm for a Dark Year
Legend of Jimmy Blue Eyes
Speaking of Cinderella - If The Shoe Fits - Vincent Price
Cops and Robbers - Real Detectives Solve Radio Crime Drama
The Ex-Urbanites

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