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Podcast: Breaking Walls: The Podcast on the History of American Network Radio Broadcasting
Episode: BW - EP115: The CBS Radio Workshop (1956 - 1957)
Description: In Breaking Walls episode 115, we focus on one of the last experimental programs on the air, The CBS Radio Workshop, and the man at its Hollywood helm, William Froug. We’ll listen to episodes, hear interviews with men and women known and unknown, and find out why this show was so critically acclaimed in its day.
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Highlights:
• Who is Bill Froug and what does he do?
• What do Norman Corwin, Orson Welles, Ray Bradbury, Burgess Meredith, and Bernard Hermann have in common?
• Network radio in 1936
• Network radio in 1956
• The CBS Radio Workshop is revived
• Season Of Disbelief & Hail And Farewell
• A Report on ESP
• Subways Are For Sl...