Orson Welles On The Air
Summary: Orson Welles had quite a career in radio, from his days as The Shadow and his Mercury Theatre On The Air, to the radio version of his Third Man character from the movie, and beyond. This podcast will replay his radio performances from his various series and guest appearances.
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We’ll continue our replay of The Lives Of Harry Lime this time with the 34th episode, titled Faith, Lime, And Charity. This show aired March 21, 1952. [audio:http://archive.org/download/owota2/owota135.mp3] Download owota135
On today’s show, we’ll hear another story from The Black Museum. This series shared the stories of items contained in the Crime Museum of Scotland Yard. The featured item, and title of this episode, is A Jar Of Acid. The series aired from January to December 1952. [audio:http://archive.org/download/owota2/owota134.mp3] Download owota134
We’ll rehear an episode on today’s show that we haven’t heard in a couple of years. As suggested by Jake in the Relic Radio Forum, here is Twentieth Century, an episode from The Campbell Playhouse that first aired March 24, 1939. [audio:http://archive.org/download/owota2/owota133.mp3] Download owota133
On this episode we’ll hear another performance of Orson Welles on the Cavalcade Of America. This episode, titled Thunder From The Mountains, first aired September 28, 1942. [audio:http://archive.org/download/owota2/owota132.mp3] Download owota132
Warning: This one sounds really rough! Continuing our replay of The Lives Of Harry Lime, we’ll hear the 33rd episode titled Violets, Sweet Violets. This one aired March 14, 1952. [audio:http://archive.org/download/owota2/owota131.mp3] Download owota131
On this episode of the show we’ll hear from Suspense. First airing October 19, 1943, Lazarus Walks was one of eight programs of this series featuring Welles. [audio:http://archive.org/download/owota2/owota130.mp3] Download owota130
This week we’ll hear Orson on the Cavalcade Of America. This episode, titled In The Best Tradition, first aired October 26, 1942. [audio:http://archive.org/download/owota2/owota129.mp3] Download owota129
We’ll hear the 32nd episode from The Lives Of Harry Lime on today’s show. Turnabout Is Foul Play first aired March 7, 1952. The audio quality is pretty horrendous on this one – consider yourself warned. It’s included here only to offer a complete set of this series. [audio:http://archive.org/download/owota2/owota128.mp3] Download owota128
On this episode we’ll hear from the Campbell Playhouse and an episode titled It Happened One Night. First airing January 28, 1940, this episode also features William Powell. [audio:http://archive.org/download/owota2/owota127.mp3] Download owota127
More from The Lives Of Harry Lime on this episode. We’ll hear the 31st program from which first aired February 29, 1952 titled Hyacinth Patrol. The audio quality of this episode is quite poor. I’ve decided to include for the sake of completeness while we replay this series. You’ve been warned. [audio:http://archive.org/download/OWOTA1/owota126.mp3] Download owota126
The Screen Guild Theater brings us our featured show this time. From December 7, 1941 we’ll hear Between Americans. This series aired from 1939 to 1952, and was broadcast at one time or another from all of the major radio networks. [audio:http://archive.org/download/owota2/owota125.mp3] Download owota125
Hosted by Orson Welles, The Black Museum aired for 52 episodes and featured stories behind the objects contained within the Scotland Yard crime museum. This episode is titled The Tan Shoe. [audio:http://archive.org/download/owota2/owota124.mp3] Download owota124
Airing almost two months after the first adaptation of Hamlet, Welles returned to The Columbia Workshop for a second show November 14, 1936. Next week we’ll hear from The Black Museum. [audio:http://archive.org/download/owota2/owota123.mp3] Download
On this episode we’ll hear the first part of a two part production of Hamlet Orson Welles did for The Columbia Workshop. This first aired September 19, 1936. [audio:http://archive.org/download/owota2/owota122.mp3] Download
On today’s show we’ll hear episode 30 of The Lives Of Harry Lime, a series that aired from August 1951, to July of 1952. This episode is titled It’s In The Bag, and first aired February 22, 1952. [audio:http://archive.org/download/owota2/owota121.mp3] Download
