This episode was originally released on 5/1/2021. While new episodes of Breaking Walls are on hiatus I'll be going back and posting the older episodes.

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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 Sleeping

• Winding down the Workshop

• Looking ahead to Monitor

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The reading material used in today’s episode was:

On the Air - By John Dunning

As well as articles from:

Broadcasting Magazine

The New York Daily News

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On the interview front:

• Lilian Buyeff, Don Diamond, John Dehner, Lawrence Dobkin, Bill Froug, Jack Johnstone, Byron Kane, Elliott Lewis, and Peggy Webber were with SPERDVAC. For more information, go to SPERDVAC.com.

• Norman Corwin, Virginia Gregg, Carlton E. Morse, Alan Reed, and Russell Thorson spoke with Chuck Schaden. Hear their full chats at SpeakingOfRadio.com.

• Bill Robson spoke with Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran for WTIC’s The Golden Age of Radio. Hear this full interview at Goldenage-WTIC.org.

• William Paley spoke while receiving a citation in November of 1958.

• Ray Bradbury was interviewed by Jerry Haendiges in October of 1976.

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Selected music featured in today’s episode was:

• Don’t Fence Me In — By Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters

• February Sea — By George Winston

• Heartbreak Hotel — By Elvis Presley

• Seance on a West Afternoon — By John Barry