CBS Radio Workshop - Brave New World
JohnR2443
(4,597 Sterne; 36 Bewertungen)
The CBS Radio Workshop was an experimental dramatic radio anthology series that aired on CBS from January 27, 1956, until September 22, 1957. Subtitled âradioâs distinguished series to manâs imagination,â it was a revival of the earlier Columbia Workshop, broadcast by CBS from 1936 to 1943, and it 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 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: 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. Music for the series was composed by Bernard Herrmann, Jerry Goldsmith, Amerigo Moreno, Ray Noble and Leith Stevens. Other writers adapted to the series included Robert A. Heinlein, Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, Edgar Allan Poe, Frederik Pohl, James Thurber, Mark Twain and Thomas Wolfe. These files have been "cleaned" and the volume normalized for your listening pleasure.
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.
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World without God
Marcel F.
(4,5 Sterne)
This story is insightful as it shows where our voyage into a religious 'neutral' that is 'godless' world brings us - a world without family and enslaved by pragmatism and base lust. the last talk, about the offense of God in men's perfect world, is very interesting. I recommend this show. And hope that Christ would come again before it is reality.
good for getting a rough idea of book
Goldleaf
(3,5 Sterne)
good for getting a rough idea of book but I don't feel it did justice to the book or author . it's a great effort and they did what the could but it's just time which constrained them here . thank you lebrivox and CBS studios for providing and facilitating this