On Friday, January 27th, the revived CBS Radio Workshop took to the air for the first time with an adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World.”

The sound of artificial human life took three men and an engineer more than five hours to create. They used a ticking metronome, the beat of a tom-tom, bubbling water, an air hose, the mooing of a cow, a couple of “boings,” and three different wine glasses clinking against each other. The sounds were blended and recorded, then played backward on the air with a slight echo effect.

Bernard Herrmann composed and conducted a slender musical score. “Brave New World” would air in two parts over the first weeks of production.

The February 13th issue of Broadcasting Magazine gave the returning CBS Radio Workshop a glowing review, calling out producer William Froug for his ingenious guided laboratory tour at the beginning of “Brave New World.” Production was slated to cost roughly Seventeen-hundred dollars per episode, or just over sixteen-thousand today.

This is part one of "Brave New World." For more info on the CBS Radio Workshop, tune into Breaking Walls episode 115: The CBS Radio Workshop (1956 - 1957).