Wednesday, December 26, 2018

OTR Holiday Month Day 26: Mister President

Happy Boxing Day!

A short-lived show called Mister President would feature Edward Arnold in dramatic tales where he would be called "Mister President", challenging the listeners to guess which real US President he was portraying before the revelation in the closing minutes. This kind of restricted what kind of stories the series could tell, but at Christmas time they broke with the show's normal format for something quite different - a fiction about one of the Wise Men. The story is called "The Man at the Gate of the World" and while it takes some liberties with the Gospels, it certainly means well.

Mister President isn't as well-archived as the other shows I'm featuring this month, but I found the episode on this webpage here.

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