The CBS Radio Workshop

The CBS Radio Workshop, which aired in 1956 and 1957, was one of radio's most elaborate efforts to regain an audience that it was rapidly losing to television. Billed as "dedicated to the human mind," it featured adaptations of stories, novels, and plays by authors ranging from William Shakespeare to Aldous Huxley to James Thurber, as well as a scattering of original works.

The half-hour show was quite well-written and voiced, with excellent production values; it continued a CBS tradition that included the Columbia Workshop (1936-1943). Nevertheless, it and other ambitious programming of the same period, such as The Big Show, were unable to stave off the coming dominance of television.

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Series description provided by Frank Bell.