The Columbia Workshop aired on CBS radio from 1936 until 1947. Produced by Irving Reis, it had been an experimental system with no limitations for what radio got to offer. In its debut broadcast it noted that The Columbia Workshop dedicates itself towards the reasons of familiarizing you with the story behind radio, both in broadcasting, aswell as with aviation, shipping, conversation and pathology, and to test in new methods with a hope of finding or evolving new and better types of radio about The Columbia Workshop, Collection 1 presentation, with special emphasis on radio dilemma; to encourage and present the task of new writers and artists and also require fresh and vital ideas to lead. Broadcast from New York, it featured the largest celebrities from stage, display screen and radio including Orson Welles, Burgess Meredith, Agnes Moorehead, Frank Lovejoy, Elsa Lanchester, Joseph Cotten, Richard Widmark, Art Carney, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price and Laurence Olivier. Stories were by William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, John Keats, Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Hemingway, Norman Corwin, Stephen Vincent Benet, Rudyard Kipling, Mark Twain, Lucille Fletcher, Carl Sandburg and Herman Melville with music by Bernard Herrmann.5/29/39 “Personal Throgg”

9/14/39 “The Use of Man”

7/7/40 “The Cockeyed Question”

9/15/40 “Mr. Charles”

9/29/40 “The Pussy Cat as well as the Expert Plumber WHO WAS SIMPLY a Man”

2/9/46 “Wedding anniversary”

2/16/46 “Just a Plain Blue Fit”

2/23/46 “Hard Fortune Story”

3/2/46 “Slim”

3/9/46 “Thanks for the Thoughts”

3/23/46 “Act of Beliefs”

4/6/46 “The Last Talk”