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The Giant: Orson Welles, the Artist and the Shadow is a graphic novel by Youssef Daoudi, published in English last year by First Second. It...

Today's program is an episode of Orson Welles' series Hello, Americans . This was a wartime program designed to foster good relation...

Let's talk about another syndicated radio series produced by Harry Alan Towers: the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (it was also broadcas...

"That was the shot that killed Harry Lime. He died in a sewer beneath Vienna, as those of you know who saw the movie the Third Man . Ye...

"The Black Museum, the repository of death. Yes, here in the grim stone structure on the Thames which houses Scotland Yard is a warehou...

Even the Shadow appeared in a few Christmas adventures over the years - in fact, Orson Welles and Agnes Moorehead starred in a Christmas ad...

Victor Hugo's novel Les Miserables was adapted to radio in 1937 in a format similar to how television would later create it's own p...

As many of my "Radio Recaps" have indicated, I've been immersed in the old-time radio hobby for many years now. I'm still ...

If you're a fan of old-time radio, then you have an opinion about Orson Welles. To some he's very well-regarded, to others he's ...

The 1938 broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" on Mercury Theater on the Air has become possibly the most-heard radio drama in the...

This Is My Best was a radio anthology series that ran from September 5, 1944 to May 28, 1946 on CBS. Less than half of the series' epis...

I'm a great fan of Orson Welles' work - especially his radio programs. And yet, I hadn't given much thought to his series Hello ...

Rebecca Campbell Playhouse (December 9, 1938): starring Orson Welles, Margaret Sullvan and Agnes Moorehead. Lux Radio Theater (February 3...

The 39 Steps The 39 Steps was one of the greatest films from Alfred Hitchcock's pre-Hollywood career ( the greatest, according to me)...

In 1924, Richard Connell wrote a fine short story titled "The Most Dangerous Game". The plot concerns a hunter named Rainsford who...

No Christmas season would be complete without Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol . I grew up enjoying the 1951 film version, Scrooge , b...

In the 1930s, Orson Welles & John Houseman's Mercury Theatre became a New York sensation and that led CBS to bring them to radio in...

I kinda like the Shadow . I came to the character through the old radio show; it could be campy and juvenile at times, but had a number of v...

Happy Halloween! Today I'm very pleased to wind down "31 Days of Suspense" by presenting my personal favourite episode of the...

We have reached the end of the series; on April 11, 1943, Jack Benny returned to the Jack Benny Program after missing five weeks of shows; ...