Episode 9553: CBS Radio Workshop - "Roughing It" (10-05-56)
INTRO: Bob Camardella Presents Samuel Clemens
AKA Mark Twain (11-30-1835 to 04-21-1910)
Roughing It (Aired October 5, 1956)
The CBS Radio Workshop aired from January 27, 1956 through September 22, 1957 and was a revival of the prestigious Columbia Workshop from the 1930s and 1940s. Creator William Froug launched the series with this powerhouse two-part adaptation of "Brave New World" and booked author Aldous Huxley to narrate his famous novel. "We’ll never get a sponsor anyway," CBS vice president Howard Barnes explained to Time, "so we might as well try anything." The CBS Workshop regularly featured the works of the world’s greatest writers. including Ray Bradbury, Archibald MacLeish, William Saroyan, Lord Dunsany and Ambrose Bierce.
THIS EPISODE:
October 5, 1956. CBS network. "Roughing It". Sustaining. Written by and "narrated" by Samuel Clemens. A do-it-yourself kit for Western movies. Good radio and a fine adaptation of Mark Twain. Daws Butler, Edward Marr, Harold Peary, Howard McNear, Jack Kruschen, Junius Matthews, Luis Van Rooten, Mark Twain (author), Peter Leeds. 29:58. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.
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