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Cbs Radio Workshop - "Space Merchants Part 1" (1957)
CBS Radio Workshop presents “Space Merchants Part 1,” episode 55, originally broadcast on February 17, 1957. This CBS adaptation of Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth’s influential novel The Space Merchants was written for radio by Charles Monroe and directed by Paul Roberts.
In a future ruled by the immense power of advertising, star copywriter Mitchell Courtney of Fowler Schocken receives a daunting assignment: sell the public on colonizing Venus. Staats Cotsworth stars as Courtney, with Virginia Kaye as Cathy, in the first half of a sharp science-fiction satire of corporate influence…
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