Radio Drama · Old Time Radio · Drama · Horror & the supernatural · News & history

Columbia Workshop

Networks
CBS (as its archives name them)
Heard
1936–1947
Episodes
539
Language
English

The Columbia Workshop is an excellent collection of Old Time Radio dramas. There is a lot of variety in the offerings, which range from Hamlet to Alice in Wonderland.

Episodes, in broadcast order page 1 of 6

  1. Comedy of Danger Finger of God

    · 30 min

  2. A Comedy of Danger - The Finger of God

    · No. 1 · 30 min

  3. Comedy of Danger-Finger of God

    · No. 1 · 30 min

  4. Broadway Evening

    · No. 2 · 30 min

  5. Cartwheel

    · No. 3 · 30 min

  6. Experiment Highway Incident

    · 31 min

  7. Experiment-Highway Incident

    · No. 4 · 30 min

  8. Experiment - Highway Incident

    · No. 4 · 30 min

  9. Case History

    · No. 5 · 29 min

  10. There Must Be Something Else

    · No. 6 · 29 min

  11. The San Quentin Broadcast

    · No. 7 · 30 min

  12. Voyage to Brobdingnag

    · No. 8 · 29 min

  13. Hamlet Part 1

    · 22 min

  14. Hamlet, Part 1

    · No. 9 · 29 min

  15. Track 1

    · 30 min

  16. The Dream Makers - The Sound Microscope

    · No. 10 · 30 min

  17. Track 2

    · 30 min

  18. Dauber

    · No. 13 · 30 min

  19. Scoring for Radio Vocabulary of Music

    · 30 min

  20. Scoring for Radio (Vocabulary of Music)

    · 30 min

  21. Hamlet Part 2

    · 22 min

  22. Hamlet, Part 2

    · No. 16 · 30 min

  23. Track 2

    · 30 min

  24. The Use of Theaters for Broadcasts

    · No. 17 · 30 min

  25. History of the American Patent System

    · 12 min

  26. Rhythm of the Jute Mill

    · 30 min

  27. Track 1

    · 30 min

  28. Rhythm of the Jute Mill

    · No. 19 · 30 min

  29. The Gods of the Mountain

    · No. 20 · 30 min

  30. The Happy Prince

    · 22 min

  31. Public Domain

    · 21 min

  32. Control Engineer Voyage to Lilliput

    · 30 min

  33. Track 2

    · 30 min

  34. Control Engineers, Part 1 - Voyage to Lilliput

    · No. 23 · 30 min

  35. The Signalman

    · No. 25 · 30 min

  36. Track 1

    · 30 min

  37. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

    · No. 27 · 30 min

  38. Pitch Perception

    · 22 min

  39. Split Seconds

    · No. 30 · 30 min

  40. Danse Macabre

    · No. 31 · 30 min

  41. Track 2

    · 29 min

  42. The Eve of St. Agnes

    · No. 32 · 30 min

  43. Big Ben Crisis

    · 30 min

  44. Track 1

    · 30 min

  45. Big Ben - Crisis

    · No. 33 · 30 min

  46. The Fall of the City

    · 20 min

  47. R U R

    · No. 35 · 30 min

  48. Saint Louis Blues

    · No. 36 · 30 min

  49. St. Louis Blues

    · No. 36 · 30 min

  50. Drums of the Conscience

    · 30 min

  51. Track 2

    · 30 min

  52. Drums of Conscience

    · No. 37 · 30 min

  53. Track 1

    · 29 min

  54. Supply and Demand

    · No. 38 · 30 min

  55. Track 2

    · 30 min

  56. Paul Revere

    · No. 39 · 30 min

  57. Night at the Inn

    · No. 40 · 30 min

  58. A Night at an Inn

    · No. 40 · 30 min

  59. Track 1

    · 30 min

  60. Discovery

    · No. 41 · 30 min

  61. The Downbeat On Murder

    · 30 min

  62. Red Head Baker

    · 29 min

  63. Track 1

    · 29 min

  64. Red-Head Baker

    · No. 44 · 29 min

  65. Babouk

    · 23 min

  66. Babuouk

    · No. 45 · 31 min

  67. The Tell Tale Heart

    · 30 min

  68. The Tell-Tale Heart

    · No. 47 · 30 min

  69. Track 2

    · 30 min

  70. Fifty Grand

    · No. 48 · 30 min

  71. Track 1

    · 30 min

  72. A Matter of Life and Death

    · No. 49 · 30 min

  73. Incident of the Cosmos Last Citation

    · 30 min

  74. Incident of the Cosmos-Last Citation

    · No. 51 · 30 min

  75. An Incident of the Cosmos - The Last Citation

    · No. 51 · 30 min

  76. Escape Part 2

    · 29 min

  77. Escape, Part 2

    · No. 53 · 29 min

  78. S S San Pedro

    · No. 55 · 30 min

  79. S.S. San Pedro

    · No. 55 · 30 min

  80. Track 2

    · 30 min

  81. Death of a Queen

    · No. 56 · 30 min

  82. Alices Adventures in Wonderland Part 1

    · 30 min

  83. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Part 1

    · No. 58 · 30 min

  84. Alice in Wonderland, Part 1

    · No. 58 · 30 min

  85. Alice in Wonderland Part 1

    · 22 min

  86. Alice in Wonderland Part 2

    · 23 min

  87. Alices Adventures in Wonderland Part 2

    · 31 min

  88. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Part 2

    · No. 59 · 31 min

  89. Alice in Wonderland, Part 2

    · No. 59 · 31 min

  90. The Killers Illusion

    · 29 min

  91. Track 1

    · 29 min

  92. The Killers - Illusion

    · No. 61 · 30 min

  93. Sweep

    · No. 63 · 24 min

  94. The Horla

    · No. 64 · 30 min

  95. Georgia Transport

    · No. 66 · 30 min

  96. Marconi, the Man and his Wireless

    · No. 68 · 30 min

  97. Metzungerstein

    · No. 69 · 29 min

  98. Metzengerstein

    · No. 69 · 29 min

  99. Alice Through the Looking Glass Part 1

    · 23 min

Where it comes from 4

The archive items its episodes are played from, best first, with each one’s rights as its archive states them. An episode two sets both hold is played from the first.

  1. Columbia Workshop

    Old Time Radio · 63 episodes here · archive.org (opens in a new tab)

    Uploader’s mark: Public domain (Creative Commons dedication): Marked Public domain (Creative Commons dedication) by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it.

  2. Columbia.Workshop

    Old Time Radio · 279 episodes here · archive.org (opens in a new tab)

    Uploader’s mark: Public Domain Mark 1.0: Marked Public Domain Mark 1.0 by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it.

  3. Columbia Workshop - 333 Episodes of the CBS Old Time Radio show

    Old Time Radio · 157 episodes here · archive.org (opens in a new tab)

    the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.

  4. The Columbia Workshop OTR

    Listeners' uploads · 40 episodes here · archive.org (opens in a new tab)

    the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.

4 more sets hold only episodes played here from a set above.

From the Old Time Radio collection at the Internet Archive, uploaded by the collector named.

More Drama

Radio drama, old-time radio and historic broadcasts from the Internet Archive (its Old Time Radio collection with the Old Time Radio Researchers' sets, WWII Era Audio Recordings, the Pacifica Radio Archives, the Radio Haiti Archive, German radio plays and listeners' uploads), Wikimedia Commons (with the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision's broadcasts) and the Library of Congress. Every episode plays from its archive, which this site does not copy; rights are as each archive states them. Nothing here is called public domain on this site's say-so. In the United States, sound recordings first fixed before 15 February 1972 have federal protection under the Music Modernization Act of 2018, for most until 2067 at the latest, so most American radio of the 1930s to the 1950s is not in the public domain there. Each set shows the licence, mark or statement its archive gives, and says whose it is. Horror, crime, war and westerns are for teenage and adult profiles, racist caricature for adults only, and children’s profiles hear what was made for children. More about these archives.