CBS Radio Workshop

CBS Radio Workshop: “Season of Disbelief and Hail and Farewell”, first broadcast on February 17, 1956. Old-time radio drama anthology.

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A junior meteorologist at a San Francisco weather bureau notices an unusual weather pattern developing over the Pacific and names it Mariah. As the storm grows and sweeps toward the California coast, the chief forecaster must decide whether to predict rain, knowing how much depends on his words. Telephone and power lines, the mountain highway and the road crews who keep it open all come under pressure as the weather turns. This episode of the CBS Radio Workshop, first broadcast on February 10, 1956, was written by George Stewart and adapted and directed by William N. Robeson, with William Conrad as narrator.

With Junior meteorologist, Chief forecaster, Mariah, Road superintendent, Load dispatcher, Brownington steamship company official.

Listen for: The junior meteorologist naming storms and the chief forecaster weighing how to phrase his rain forecast

First aired on February 10, 1956.

Episode notes written with AI from the recording itself; the audio is the original broadcast.

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In a controlled future society where people are engineered by class and kept content with the drug soma, Bernard Marx, a dissatisfied alpha, brings a woman named Linda and her son John, a savage raised on a reservation, back to London. The arrival causes a scandal for the director of hatcheries, and Bernard's reputation rises as he becomes the escort for John. John struggles to adapt to civilized customs, rejecting soma, Lenina Crowne's advances and the film screenings, while he meets Bernard and Helmholtz Watson and debates their society. This is part two of the CBS Radio Workshop adaptation of Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World, broadcast on February 3, 1956, with Huxley as narrator.

With Bernard Marx, John the Savage, Linda, Lenina Crowne, Fanny Crowne, Helmholtz Watson, The Controller, The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning.

Listen for: John's arguments with the Controller and with Bernard about happiness, freedom, God and the right to be unhappy, and his confrontation with the crowd over soma at the hospital.

First aired on February 3, 1956.

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In a future London, the director of Hatcheries and Conditioning conducts a tour of the embryo bottling plant, showing students how citizens are manufactured and conditioned into their social castes. Bernard Marx, an Alpha Plus who feels out of place in this controlled society, grows restless with its rules. He takes his lover Lenina Crowne on a journey to a savage reservation in New Mexico, where they meet a woman named Linda and her son John. Radio's CBS Radio Workshop presents this first part of Aldous Huxley's adaptation of his novel Brave New World, which the author narrates.

With Bernard Marx, Lenina Crowne, Fanny Crowne, Henry Foster, Helmholtz, John, Linda, Thomas.

Listen for: The Director's tour of the bottling room and the conditioning nursery, and Bernard's journey to the reservation where he meets John and Linda.

First aired on January 27, 1956.

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