In this bonus episode of Audio Maverick, we feature The Life of Himan Brown, a video tribute created by some of Brown’s CBS Radio Mystery Theater actors: Patricia Elliott, Paul Hecht, Russell Horton, Bob Kaliban, Roberta Maxwell, Tony Roberts, and Jada Rowland. The work was written by Jerome Coopersmith, who authored a number of the plays featured on the CBS series; directed by Paul Hecht, and produced by Brown’s granddaughter Melina Brown and CUNY TV’s then-Executive Director Robert Isaacson. 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 - - Composer: Allison Leyton-Brown - Archivists, CUNY TV: David Rice, Catriona Schlosser -Closed Caption Coordinator: Amy Monte - Branding and Graphic Design: Shae McMullin - Publicity & Marketing: Multitude Excerpts from the Himan Brown Oral History courtesy of Directors Guild of America, Inc. www.dga.org. All rights reserved. - 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.