CBS Radio Workshop, Volume 5

Volume 5 of CBS Radio Workshop includes 'Epitaphs', from Edgar Lee Master's Spoon River Anthology; Norman Dello Joio's 'Meditations On Ecclesiastes'), which won the 1957 Pulitzer Prize for music, conducted on the program by Alfredo Antonini; James Thurber's 'You Could Look It Up'; Robert Heinlein co-adapted his short story 'The Green Hills of Earth; Edgar Allan Poe's 'Never Bet the Devil Your Head', a satirical attack on transcendentalism; an adaptation of E. M. Forster's 'The Celestial Omnibus'; Richard Durham's 'Sweet Cherries In Charleston', which tells the story of the aborted 1822 slave rebellion in Charleston, South Carolina; an adaptation of 'Young Man Axelbrod' by Sinclair Lewis, a critic of American society who is probably best remembered for It Can't Happen Here, about the election of a Fascist as the American president.