In January 1956, Conrad was the announcer on the debut broadcast of "The CBS Radio Workshop", a two-part adaptation of Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World", which Huxley himself narrated. "On the air, "The CBS Radio Workshop" was a lightning rod for ideas," wrote radio historian John Dunning, who cites Conrad's "tour de force" performances in the subsequent broadcasts "The Legend of Jimmy Blue Eyes" (March 23, 1956) and "A Matter of Logic" (June 1, 1956). Conrad directed and narrated the 1957 episode "Epitaphs", an adaptation of Edgar Lee Masters's poetry volume "Spoon River Anthology".