Columbia Workshop - 333 Episodes of the CBS Old Time Radio show


This collection features 333 episodes of the CBS radio program, Columbia Workshop. The program originally aired from 1936 to 1943, and then again from 1946 to 1947. It served as a platform for CBS to experiment with radio, showcasing the talents of notable figures like Norman Corwin.

This collection aims to preserve these artistic expressions for future generations, making them easily accessible to all.


This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.

Chapters

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A Comedy of Danger - The Finger of God 29:31
Broadway Evening 29:29
Cartwheel 30:19
Experiment - Highway Incident 30:29
Case History 29:21
The March of the Molecules - There Must Be Something Else 29:24
The San Quentin Broadcast 29:32
A Voyage to Brobdingnag 29:14
Hamlet, Part 1 29:26
The Dream Makers - The Sound Microscope 29:40
Dauber 29:53
Scoring for Radio 30:15
Hamlet, Part 2 29:50
The Use of Theaters for Broadcasts 29:53
The American Patent System 28:31
Rhythm of the Jute Mill 29:48
The Gods of the Mountain 29:53
The Happy Prince 29:28
January 2, 1937 27:53
Control Engineers, Part 1 - Voyage to Lilliput 29:37
The Signalman 29:44
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 29:46
Pitch and Pitch Perception 29:19
Split Seconds 29:59
Danse Macabre 29:30
The Eve of St. Agnes 29:32
Big Ben - Crisis 29:45
The Fall of the City 26:42
R U R 29:34
St. Louis Blues 29:40
Drums of Conscience 29:44
Supply and Demand 29:32
Paul Revere 29:55
A Night at an Inn 29:48
Discovery 30:12
The Downbeat on Murder 29:55
Red-Head Baker 29:29
Babouk 31:06
The Tell-Tale Heart 29:41
Fifty Grand 30:00
A Matter of Life and Death 29:31
An Incident of the Cosmos - The Last Citation 29:51
Escape, Part 2 28:40
S.S. San Pedro 29:51
Death of a Queen 29:38
Alice in Wonderland, Part 1 29:57
Alice in Wonderland, Part 2 30:39
The Killers - Illusion 29:35
Sweep 24:04
The Horla 29:55
Georgia Transport 29:52
Marconi, the Man and his Wireless 29:57
Metzengerstein 29:17
Alice's Adventures Through The Looking Glass, Pt 1 30:09
Alice's Adventures Through The Looking Glass, Pt 2 29:58
The Ghost of Benjamin Sweet, Part 1 29:58
The House That Jack Didn't Build 29:50
Madame Curie 29:37
Andrea Del Sarto 29:57
Be Prepared 29:33
The Well of the Saints 29:12
Night Patrol 29:53
Hassan 32:28
The Wedding of the Meteors 29:48
J. Smith and Wife 29:30
Seven Waves Away 29:36
The Broken Feather 29:41
The Terrible Meek 29:52
Never Come Monday 29:59
Fours into Seven Won't Go 29:42
The Fisherman and His Soul 29:46
Melodrams 30:07
Ecce Homo (Behold the Man) 28:55
Bury the Dead 29:39
Tranga Man, Fine Gah 29:51
Surrealism 29:57
The Constitution of the United States 29:53
The National Headliners 29:55
Murder in the Cathedral 59:36
Tristram 28:47
The Devil and Daniel Webster 29:57
Outward Bound 29:33
He Doubles in Pipes 29:52
The Lighthouse Keepers 22:30
The Brushwood Boy 29:28
The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden 29:30
Air Raid 30:27
Poetic License 29:02
A Drink of Water 29:15
Luck 28:46
Beauty and the Beast 29:43
Man with a Gun - Fall of Jericho 29:50
A Trip to Czardis 28:32
Bread on the Waters 29:49
Crosstown Manhattan 30:12
Orphan Ego 29:52
Forgot in the Rains 29:52
Mr. Whipple Is Worried 29:52
Prophecy 28:12
Now Playing Tomorrow 29:58
Do Not Open for 5,000 Years 29:56
Nine Prisoners 28:50
Jury Trial 29:55
The Winged Victory 28:29
In the Train 28:05
A Letter from Home 27:06
Pepito Inherits the Earth 16:16
Rendezvous with Kit Carson 27:08
They Fly Through the Air With the Greatest of Ease 27:30
Highlights from CBS Musical Programs 29:37
Seems Radio Is Here to Stay 30:47
Wet Saturday 29:55
Wild Man 29:39
The Law Beaters 29:41
Private Throgg 29:43
Highboy 29:35
A Handful of Dust 29:38
Listen to a Story 29:56
The Half-Pint Flask 29:36
John Brown's Body 59:36
A Trip to Czardis 29:54
Radio Play 29:00
A Drink of Water 28:28
Meridian 7-1212 25:05
Apartment to Let 27:13
So This Is Radio 29:45
The Use of Man 29:54
Now It's Summer 30:14
The Fall of the City 29:03
Wake Up and Die 29:39
William Ireland's Confession 29:22
Blennerhasset 29:17
A Letter from Above 28:59
A Circular Tour 29:48
The Wonderful Day 27:59
As You Like It 29:07
Story in Dogtown Common 27:30
Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk 29:41
Higher Than a Kite 30:43
Fanny Kemble 29:42
Heavenly Rest 29:40
Coals to Newcastle 29:56
The Autobiography of an Egotist 29:54
The Great Microphone Mystery 29:59
Double Exposure 29:58
Dialogue with Music - Fraternity Meeting - Outside This World 29:56
Taming of the Shrew 29:33
Three Strikes, You're Out 29:40
America Was Promises 29:23
Honest Captain 29:49
A Day in Manhattan 29:59
A Program of Mexican Music 29:25
The Dark Valley 10:40
No Complications 29:32
In April Once 29:53
The Man with the One Track Mind 29:45
The Cockeyed Wonder 30:41
Fish Story 30:22
The Canvas Kisser 29:34
Carmilla 29:32
Nightmare at Noon - Radio in the Rain 29:58
The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins 29:59
I Followed the Seals 29:53
Alf, the All-American Fly 29:37
The Major Goes Over the Hill 29:37
Mr. Charles 29:28
The Pussy Cat and the Expert Plumber Who Was a Man 29:58
A Man's House 29:52
Fulton Fish Market 29:50
The Constitution of the United States 29:53
Sonata For Two Pianos and Percussion 29:47
I Get The Blues From Revues 29:48
The Dynasts 25:37
And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street 29:59
The Trojan Women 29:45
The Plot to Overthrow Christmas 30:59
Dr. Johnson in Scotland 29:45
Love in 32 Bars 29:38
Cassidy and the Devil 29:42
This Is From David 29:58
Help Me, Hannah 29:54
A Crop of Beans 29:53
Wings for an Eagle 29:41
Roadside 29:38
The Still, Small Voice 29:40
Cassidy and the Devil 29:38
Out of the Air 29:38
The Creation - The Congo 29:22
The Rocking Horse Winner 2:52
The Reluctant Dragon 7:32
Jason Was a Man 29:59
Radio Primer 29:44
Log of the R-77 29:17
The People, Yes 30:13
Lip Service 29:59
Appointment 22:22
The Odyssey of Runyon Jones 27:55
A Soliloquy to Balance the Budget 22:46
Daybreak 30:09
Old Salt 21:50
Between Americans 24:03
Ann Was an Ordinary Girl 28:44
Double Concerto 21:00
Descent of the Gods 28:20
Samson (Old Testament Trilogy, Part 1) 19:58
Esther (Old Testament Trilogy, Part 2) 28:13
Job (Old Testament Trilogy, Part 3) 8:56
Mary and the Fairy 8:24
The Anatomy of Sound 28:33
Fragment from a Lost Cause 3:17
The Human Angle 29:10
Good Heavens 29:58
Wolfiana 29:39
Murder in Studio One 29:51
Descent of the Gods 30:10
The Odyssey of Runyon Jones 30:21
A Man with a Platform 30:38
Psalm for a Dark Year 29:41
Gator Boy 29:34
Soundtrack of the Life of a Careful Man 28:47
Double Ugly 27:53
Citizen for Tomorrow 29:31
We Hold These Truths 1:00:04
Miracle in Manhattan 29:52
Who Wants to Be Born These Days 27:37
The Fish on the Bathroom Floor 29:36
Free Speech 29:31
At the Sign of the Lark 29:38
The Man Without a Shadow 28:28
Jenny, the Bus Nobody Loved 27:23
Portrait of Jennie 24:56
Opus for Lute and a Liar 24:23
When the Bough Breaks 24:33
He Should Have Stood in Elba 24:25
Play Ball 23:44
Midnight Blue 24:49
The City Wears a Slouch Hat 28:10
The Little One 24:46
Ritchie the Great 29:25
History is on the March 29:54
July 3, 1942 29:11
Someone Else 29:50
The Music of Mountains 29:54
All Out for Comedy - The Columbia Sketchbook 29:58
Florrie and the Country Green 29:39
Rebirth of Barrow's Inlet 28:24
Remodeled Brownstone 29:21
Proclaim the Morning 29:56
Movie Primer 30:57
The Long Name None Could Spell 30:36
Lonesome Train 30:31
Savage Encounter 27:27
The Odyssey of Runyon Jones 30:37
You Can Dream, Inc 26:22
April 18, 1944 30:35
Dorie Got a Medal 30:43
The Cliche Expert 30:22
Cromer 29:55
New York - a Tapestry for Radio 28:34
Tel Aviv 29:48
May 30, 1944 27:40
American Trilogy 1 - Carl Sandburg 29:34
American Trilogy 2 - Wolfiana 28:37
American Trilogy 3 - Walt Whitman 29:31
Home for the Fourth 28:24
The Moat Farm Murder 30:37
El Capitan and the Corporal 26:48
A Pitch to Reluctant Buyers 29:26
A Very Fine Type Girl 30:23
There Will Be Time Later 29:20
On a Note of Triumph 59:05
Unity Fair 28:14
Daybreak 32:24
The Undecided Molecule 29:13
New York, a Tapestry for Radio 29:32
Savage Encounter 30:54
Fourteen August 16:09
L'affair Gumpert 30:37
Homecoming 29:20
Anniversary 29:02
Just a Plain Blue Suit 28:59
Hard Luck Story 29:03
Slim 29:25
Thanks for the Memories 29:39
Two Sections from T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets 29:01
Act of Faith 28:47
A Very Honorable Guy 29:38
The Last Speech 28:53
Joe Peabody's Dream 29:07
The Playroom 29:15
A Study in Bells - The House 29:13
Sam Small's Better Half 29:42
No Children at Play 28:32
The Trial 28:35
The Fisherman and the Genie 29:35
Richard III 1:30:49
Peer Gynt 1:31:50
Sometime Every Summertime 29:06
How Radar Saved Democracy 29:57
This Is Singing Country 29:24
Three's Company 29:44
The Pied Piper of Hamelin 29:19
Legend in Brocade 29:38
Happy Thoughts for a Hot Afternoon 29:08
Wilbur, The Psychoneurotic Automobile 29:39
Modern Exhibit 30:00
The Path and the Door, A Psychological Experiment 26:51
The Last Delegate 27:27
The Midnight Town Is Full of Boys 30:25
The Day That Baseball Died 28:55
Studies in Jealousy 30:15
Brewsie and Willie 30:20
Moby Dick, Part 1 29:40
Moby Dick, Part 2 29:35
Lee Fountain Comes of Age 29:38
Farewell to Altamont 29:35
The Man Who Could Bring Pictures to Life - The Sounds of Peace 29:44
The Tin Whistle 29:56
It Shouldn't Happen to a Man 30:03
The Parade 30:53
Alice and the Echo 29:38
The Day They Gave Babies Away 29:35
Rain, Rain Go Away 30:18
Tongues of Fire 29:36
Surreal Marriage 31:54
My Life with Ernest Ruell 30:19
Natural History of Nonsense 30:38
Once Upon a Tune - Head in the Clouds 29:33
Once Upon a Tune - One of Our Bongs is Missing 29:32
Once Upon a Tune - Henry the Spook 29:49
Once Upon a Tune - Ferdinand the Bullfrog 29:50
Once Upon a Tune - Tortilla Jones 29:36
Once Upon a Tune - When the World Was New 29:27