Episode 3: Golden Boy

Brown was radio prodigy and prodigious multi-tasker, who began producing and performing in audio, and making groundbreaking deals, while he was still in high school, and was servicing the radio entertainment industry by the time he was in law school. This episode charts his early performance and production history, his relationship with key advertisers and emerging talents like Agnes Moorehead and Irwin Shaw, and the start of his Dick Tracy programs.

Credits

- Executive Producers: Melina Brown, Sarah Montague

- Executive Director, CUNY TV: Chiqui Cartagena

- Director of Production, CUNY TV: Susan Iger

- Producer/Director: Sarah Montague

- Narrator: Margot Avery

- Concept and Script: Sarah Montague

- Associate Producer: Corinne Wallace

- Audio Production intern: Lucia Funaro

- Audio Engineer, CUNY TV: Lisa Gosselin

- Senior Audio Engineer, CUNY TV: Richard Kim

- Mixing: Lisa Gosselin

- Sound design and final mixing: John DeLore and Bart Warshaw

- Staff photographer, CUNY TV: Laura Fuchs

- Script editor: Allison Behringer

- Script reviewer: Zach Sansted

- Composer: Allison Leyton-Brown

- Archivists, CUNY TV: David Rice, Catriona Schlosser

- Branding and Graphic Design: Shae McMullin

- Publicity & Marketing: Multitude

- Audio Maverick was produced at THE HIMAN BROWN TV AND RADIO STUDIOS at CUNY TV, and made possible by the Radio Drama Network

About Us

The history of radio crackles to life with Audio Maverick, a 9-part documentary about one of the most visionary figures in radio, Himan Brown. Explore the Golden Age of radio through Brown's life, as we travel from the birth of audio drama to the programs that brought millions of families into their living rooms every night.

CUNY TV and the Himan Brown Archive assemble the story of how radio became an entertainment medium through archival audio of some of the most famous audio dramas, contemporary interviews with media scholars, and discussions with a new generation of audio mavericks that he inspired. New episodes monthly.