The Complete Orson Welles

The Shadow | Society of the Living Dead | Broadcast date: Sunday, January 23, 1938 Story: Lamont looks into what he believes is a connection between a passport forgery ring and the supposed suicide of a broker linked to a recent stock swindle. : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and posting every week. Donations are through my duane.me...

Campbell Playhouse | The Glass Key | Broadcast date: Friday, March 10th, 1939 Story: A portrait of "the dark ways of the underworld" during the Depression. Crooked politics, murder, violence, a good story. Guest Warden Lawes of Sing Sing is interviewed after the story. Following the story Orson Welles talks to Warden Laws from Sing Sing Prison who tells us that in the 12 months of depression begin...

The Mercury Theatre on the Air | Seventeen | Broadcast date: Sunday,  October 16, 1938 Adapted from the novel by Booth Tarkington Cast: Orson Welles (William Sylvanus Baxter), Betty Garde (Mrs. Baxter), Ray Collins (Mr. Parcher), Mary Wickes (Mrs. Parcher), Joseph Cotten (Genesis), Ruth Ford (Lola Pratt, the Baby Talk Girl), Marilyn Erskine (Jane), Elli...

Black-Museum | The Black Gladstone Bag, ep. 4 | Broadcast date: One source says, January 22, 1952 A regular piece of luggage belonging to Jim, a travelling salesman, but now is tainted with murder. Jim seems to be something of a player, with a couple ladies on his string. When there’s an argument Jim kills his girlfriend, but there’s one important clue that will do him in. Jim still has his second...

The Adventures of Harry Lime | Voodoo, ep. 5 | Broadcast: August 31, 1951 In Haiti, Harry teams up with a con-lady to cheat a loud-mouthed American. : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and posting every week. Donations are through my duane.media PayPal account: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=MSL7S8FKCSL94 My other podcast c...

Radio Reader's Digest | Pilot | Broadcast date: Sunday, March 31, 1946 : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and posting every week. Donations are through my duane.media PayPal account: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=MSL7S8FKCSL94 My other podcast channels include: MYSTERY x SUSPENSE -- DRAMA X THEATER -- SCI FI x HORROR -- C...

Orson Welles Commentaries | Fortune Tellers; GI Entertainment in the Atomic Age; Food Shortage in Europe, ep. 2 -- Broadcast date: Sunday, September 23, 1945 || Ike and Britain; Patton's Peace for Germany; Truman's, Little Man Act -- Broadcast date: Sunday, September 30, 1945 Orson Welles Commentaries aired on ABC radio, produced and directed by Orson Welles. Featuring Welles' commentary and readi...

The Mercury Theatre on the Air | ep. 114, Hell on Ice | Broadcast date: Sunday, October 9, 1938 A Howard Koch adaptation of Hell on Ice, written by, Edward Ellsberg. A true story of a 19th-century expedition to the North Pole, and its terrible fate. Featuring: William Alland; John Brown; Ray Collins; Bud Collyer; Joseph Cotten; Frank Readick; Thelma Schnay; Howard Smith; Al Swenson; Orson Welles :...

The Orson Welles Almanac | Lionel Barrymore | This episode aired, Wednesday, February 2, 1944  : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and posting every week. Donations are through my duane.media PayPal account: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=MSL7S8FKCSL94 My other podcast channels include: MYSTERY x SUSPENSE -- DRAMA X TH...

Suspense | The Marvelous Barastro | Broadcast date: Thursday, April 13, 1944 Story: Twenty years ago when the Marvelous Barastro was young man he traveled as a magician with a small carnival across Eastern Europe. One night the settled in a small village in Russia and the villagers gathered around them. It was here that he met the woman who was blind with her grandfather and he could not bear to t...

The Mercury Theatre on the Air | Immortal Sherlock Holmes | This episode aired: Sunday, September 25, 1938 With news bulletins of the European war crisis. Holmes had, a few days earlier received a visit from a certain foreign nobleman who had recently inherited a very considerable title. It seems this titled gentleman had been so indiscreet as to fall in love with a young English Lady by the name...

Fifth War Loan Drive | Fifth War Loan Drive - Texarkana, TX | Broadcast date: Monday, June 12, 1944 An hour long program examining attitudes about the war, mixing wartime politics and religious elements produced in cooperation with the U.S. Treasury Department. : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and posting every week. Donations are throug...

The Chase and Sanborn Hour | Guest Orson Welles | Episode aired, Sunday, April 2, 1944 Featuring: Orson Welles; Jane Powell NOTE: This is not the full episode Hosted by Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Don Ameche, and singers Dorothy Lamour and Nelson Eddy. : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and posting every week. Do...

This Is My Best | ep28, Miss Dilly Says No [by Theodore Pratt] | Broadcast date: Tuesday, t March 20, 1945 Orson served as producer, writer, host and star. Sponsored by Cresta Blanca wines, the series aired on CBS Radio from 1944 to 1946. It was performed before a live audience. : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and po...

The Jack Benny Program | Host Orson Welles - Murder at Midnight | This episode aired, Sunday March 28, 1943 Mary reads a letter from Mama. Mel Blanc gets to imitate a chicken and an electric organ! Dennis Day tells jokes in Yiddish! : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and posting every week. Donations are through my duane.media PayPal accou...

Suspense | Lazarus Walks, 1943 | This episode aired, Tuesday, October 19, 1943 Story: A man who comes back from the dead. Now people want to know what he experienced while dead. He's able to detect a lie and compelled to correct it. Featuring: Orson Welles; Brian Donlevy; Howard Duff; Robert L Richards (adaptor); J M. Speed (author) : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and...

Reading Out Loud (Pilot) | Broadcast date: Friday, September 3, 1943 First and only episode of "Reading Out Loud". Orson Welles reads passages from John Donne's 1633 poem "The Sun Rising" and the 1624 poem "Meditation 17", from which the phrase "no man is an island" originates. : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and posting every week. Don...

Ceiling Unlimited | The Navigator | This episode aired, Monday, November 23, 1942 Sponsored by the aerospace company, Lockheed-Vega Corporation Cast: Orson Welles; Joseph Cotten; Ray Collins; Agnes Moorehead; Elliott Reid; music by Bernard Herrmann Promoting the third broadcast in the series Welles stated, "Everyone knows the skill and courage it takes to become a pilot, but few rea...

Hello Americans | ep04, Alphabet of the Islands, A to C | This episode aired, Sunday,  December 6, 1942 Welles uses the individual letters of the alphabet to represent various aspects of Latin American culture - part 1. Cast: Ray Collins; Agnes Moorehead; Ted Reid; Miguelito Valdez; Orson Welles : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and...

George Washington, American | George Washington, American | This episode aired, February 22, 1941 This 1941 broadcast, in dramatic fashion episode celebrates with "The name George Washington has become a symbol of liberty and freedom... a guiding beacon as freedom itself." : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and posting every week. Donation...

The Orson Welles Show (Lady Esther) | ep05, Wild Oranges | This episode aired, Monday, November 3, 1941 Originally Wild Oranges  was a 1924 American silent film directed by King Vidor, adapted from a story by Joseph Hergesheimer. Story: Despondent because his new bride has been killed in a carriage accident, John Woolfolk seeks solace cruising in his sailing boat with...

Cavalcade of America | Juarez, Thunder from the Mountains | This episode aired, Monday, September 28, 1942 Welles tells the story of Benito Juarez and his fight for Mexican nationalism, comparing him to Abraham Lincoln. : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and posting every week. Donations are through my duane.media PayPal account: https://w...

The Shadow | Sabotage | This episode aired, Sunday, January 16, 1939 A ship sends out a frantic SOS after an explosion onboard. Someone is sabotaging Navy ships, and Lamonte Cranston decides it’s time for the Shadow to come to the aid of his country. What criminal mastermind will he be up against?  At the hands of the saboteurs, the Shadow faces being defeated, and blown up. : : : : : You can...

The Mercury Theatre on the Air | Julius Caesar | This episode aired, September 11, 1938 Cast: Orson Welles (Brutus), Martin Gabel (Cassius), George Coulouris (Antony), Joseph Holland (Caesar); music by Marc Blitzstein; H. V. Kaltenborn(Commentator) : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and posting every week. Donations are through m...

Campbell Playhouse | ep11, Burlesque (Alice Frost) | This episode aired, Friday, February 17, 1939. Adapted from the play by Arthur Hopkins and George Manker Watters. Cast: Orson Welles, Alice Frost, Sam Levine, announcer Ernest Chappell, and includes an interview with Arthur Hopkins. : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and postin...