A Pride of Carrots
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deguspice In 1956, CBS Radio Workshop produced a radio show called "A Pride of Carrots (or Venus Well Served)" about man's first landing on the planet Venus and accidentally getting in between a war between carrots and onions. It's a wonderful political satire.
http://www.archive.org/details/CBSRadioWorkshop
It's sort of a a prequel to the song "Carrot Juice is Murder".
http://www.vivtek.com/toonbots/board_thread4710.html
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9/14/56 [Hollywood]: "A Pride of Carrots" by Robert Nathan. William N. Robson (producer/director/adaptation); Jerry Goldsmith (music); Hugh Douglas (announcer)
Cast: Robert Nathan (Narrator), Helene Burke (Alice, Mrs. Potter), June Foray (Edwina, Grocery Clerk), Tracy Roberts, Daws Butler (Fido the Griffin, Spindlespeare), Ted Bliss, Richard Hale, Alan Reed (Secretary General of the Party Odor), Sam Pierce, Bill Thompson (Secretary of the Interior Edwin, Sergeant)
June Foray did the voice for Rocky and Natasha. Bill Thompson did the voice of Droopy Dog. Daws Butler did the voice of Yogi Bear. Alan Reed did the voice for Fred Flintstone.
Some of the other shows CBS Radio Workshop did are:
http://www.archive.org/details/CBSRadioWorkshop
It's sort of a a prequel to the song "Carrot Juice is Murder".
http://www.vivtek.com/toonbots/board_thread4710.html
[...]
9/14/56 [Hollywood]: "A Pride of Carrots" by Robert Nathan. William N. Robson (producer/director/adaptation); Jerry Goldsmith (music); Hugh Douglas (announcer)
Cast: Robert Nathan (Narrator), Helene Burke (Alice, Mrs. Potter), June Foray (Edwina, Grocery Clerk), Tracy Roberts, Daws Butler (Fido the Griffin, Spindlespeare), Ted Bliss, Richard Hale, Alan Reed (Secretary General of the Party Odor), Sam Pierce, Bill Thompson (Secretary of the Interior Edwin, Sergeant)
June Foray did the voice for Rocky and Natasha. Bill Thompson did the voice of Droopy Dog. Daws Butler did the voice of Yogi Bear. Alan Reed did the voice for Fred Flintstone.
Some of the other shows CBS Radio Workshop did are:
"The Green Hills of Earth" by Robert Heinlein
"Brave New World" by. Aldous Huxley
"The Space Merchants, Part 1" by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth
"Never Bet The Devil Your Head" by Edgar Allan Poe
