The University will inaugurate its first workshop course in radio next week under the direction of Charles Siepmann, former director of Program Planning of the British Broadcasting Corporation, it was announced last night.

With particular emphasis on the technical problems of radio, the course will try "to further interest in the techniques of radio already encouraged by the CRIMSON Network and the Radio Workshop," Siepmann said.

Purely of an informal nature, the course will not be counted by the College for credit. It will include a series of lectures by some of the foremost professional radio authorities in the country, according to Siepmann.

The first meeting takes place next Thursday, will be conducted by Norman Corwin, Lawrence Lader '41, program director of the CRIMSON Network, said last night. Associated with the Columbia Broadcasting System, Corwin is one of the country's best known dramatic script writers.

Cohen to Lecture

Featuring Philip Cohen, former producer of radio programs for the U. S. Department of Education, the second meeting of the course will be held Friday, November 8. Cohen has just recently been appointed by Archibald MacLeish to the Library of Congress to explore the resources of the Library for radio.

Some time in November, John Housemann, collaborator with Orson Welles on his radio programs and manager of the Mercury Theatre, will conduct the third meeting. Houseman is now engaged in writing the radio dramas for Helen Hayes.

Future meetings of the course will be conducted by Siepmann himself and by prominent members of Boston radio stations. Reviving the theory of Baker's 47 Workshop, the radio course will attempt to illustrate the techniques of radio in their practical application.