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CART Yesterday
and Today
After more than thirty years as an actress and producer of live stage productions, in
1984 Peggy
Webber began her quest to revive radio drama and help encourage young
people to
enjoy classic literature. Her past work with
directors such as Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock,  Norman Corwin and
Jack Webb, as well as her many years as a lead actress in radio,
television and film well prepared her for the challenge.
Ms. Webber began
recording the CART radio shows casting stars from network radio,
television and film, along with members of her
own CART Repertory Stage Productions, established
actors from the U.S., Great Britain and Ireland.
 CART
appeared
at numerous conventions and at The Press Club fundraiser for those unemployed following the
closing of
the Los Angeles Examiner, and the Mayor's "Fund for The Homeless"
event. Both of the latter were live broadcasts - as was
CART's first 90-minute musical, an adaptation of Ian Whitcomb's book,
 Lotus Land.
The
early
CART radio shows were broadcast on KUSC
where - after the first production of Treasure Island - there
were three hundred calls to the station requesting more.
 For nine
years, CART was heard throughout the Los Angeles area on radio stations
KUSC, KPCC, and KPFK,
and was also broadcast on NPR (National Public Radio) for twelve
years.
Internationally, CART contracted with World Space to send
40
hours of programming to Africa, South America, and Asia and is
currently heard around the world over SIRIUS XM Satellite Radio.
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In
1989, The
Charles Kurault CBS Sunday Morning show presented excerpts of the CART
company - from
rehearsal to show-time - performing A Tribute to Abraham Lincoln, written by Peggy Webber, with scenes from Norman
Corwin's The Rivalry and Ann Rutledge, written and directed by Norman
Corwin. 
