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Columbia Workshop
Experimental radio drama series explores new narrative and sound techniques through original plays, adaptations, and music.
Columbia Workshop was a radio series that aired on the Columbia Broadcasting System from 1936 to 1943, returning in 1946–47.
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- 19462:30 PM ETCBS Radio Network · afternoonSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 19466:15 PM ETCBS Radio Network · eveningSuMoTuWeThFrSa
Bert Parks
Announcer
B
DBob Pfeiffer
Announcer
David Ross
Announcer
D
Don Baker
Announcer
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Harry Clark
Announcer
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Harry Marble
Announcer
Hugh Downs
Announcer
John Reed King
Announcer
J
John Tillman
Announcer
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Niles Welsh
Announcer
Robert Trout
Announcer
SSandy Becker
Announcer
SStuart Metz
Announcer
TTony Marvin
Announcer
Alice Frost
Cast
Arnold Moss
Cast
Berry Kroeger
Cast
Burgess Meredith
Cast
Carl Frank
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Colleen Ward
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D
Dorothy Lowell
Cast
Dwight Weist
Cast
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EEarle Larimore
Cast
Ed Latimer
Cast
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EEdwin 'Ed' Jerome
Cast
Eleanor Phelps
Cast
E
FEstelle Levy
Cast
Frank Lovejoy
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Fred Stewart
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G
Gene Morgan
Cast
Grace Matthews
Cast
HHester Sondergaard
Cast
J
James Gilmore Backus
Cast
Joan Alexander
Cast
Lamont Johnson
Cast
LLinda Watkins
Cast
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MLouis 'Lou' Krugman
Cast
May Whitty
Cast
Minerva Pious
Cast
NNeil O'Malley
Cast
O
Osa Massen
Cast
R
Rosemary DeCamp
Cast
Stefan Schnabel
Cast
Tom Tully
Cast
Vic Perrin
Cast
Walter Greaza
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AAlbert Ward
Director
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Betsy Tuthill
Director
B
Brewster Morgan
Director
C
Carl Beier
Director
E
Earle McGill
Director
Fletcher Markle
Director
G
George Zachary
Director
G
Guy Della-Cioppa
Director
H
Howard Barnes
Director
Irving Reis
Director
J
James Fassett
Director
M
Martin Gosch
Director
M
Marx Loeb
Director
Norman Corwin
Director
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