CBS Radio Workshop, Volume 5

Volume 5 of CBS Radio Workshop includes &quote;Epitaphs&quote;, from Edgar Lee Master's Spoon River Anthology; Norman Dello Joio's &quote;Meditations On Ecclesiastes&quote;), which won the 1957 Pulitzer Prize for music, conducted on the program by Alfredo Antonini; James Thurber's &quote;You Could Look It Up&quote;; Robert Heinlein co-adapted his short story &quote;The Green Hills of Earth; Edgar Allan Poe's &quote;Never Bet the Devil Your Head&quote;, a satirical attack on transcendentalism; an adaptation of E. M. Forster's &quote;The Celestial Omnibus&quote;; Richard Durham's &quote;Sweet Cherries In Charleston&quote;, which tells the story of the aborted 1822 slave rebellion in Charleston, South Carolina; an adaptation of &quote;Young Man Axelbrod&quote; 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.