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All Is Bright

CBS Radio Workshop · December 23, 1956 · 24 min · 2,750 words

The transcript of “All Is Bright”, an episode of CBS Radio Workshop first broadcast December 23, 1956. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). CBS Radio Workshop plays CBS Radio Workshop free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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The person said we'd meet her about 11. I have to see her. Impressive isn't it? Like a phosphorescent waterbox. Oh much prettier. I suppose they are having a ball too.

Oh isn't it thrilling? Christmas Eve in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The CBS radio workshop dedicated to man's imagination, the theater of the mind. Today, all is bright, a simple story of a simple song, which from long lost beginnings, through the help of a persistent king and a melodious bird, trained by a true and schoolboy,

developed into the world's most beloved expression of the spirit of Christmas, the feast of men and women of goodwill, and especially of children. It takes me back that I mean I beg your pardon I said it takes me back that walls right away I'm afraid oh yes yes still you're playing it right oh in what way

not enough spirit but there's to be an easy thought of it they are playing it It's an English wallet size, I suppose. Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, this is you know, it's Christmas Eve.

So on the eve of this our greatest of holidays, we will play a melody which I am sure you all know. Wait, what? What? Who? I'm sorry, Mr. Conductor. I did not mean to be heard.

Well, sir, I don't see why. Oh, my maestro. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm sorry I didn't recognize the voice immediately. Along with the introduce ladies and gentlemen, the noted, the famous conductor of some of the greatest orchestras in the world.

Maestro Reinhardt's favorite. Ladies and gentlemen, the Maestro's Austrian I know, by birth that is, and since this worldwide favorite of all Christmas carols was written in Austria, I can't think of anything more fitting that the Maestro himself should take over the baton.

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