1937, Welles in his stage production of Julius Caesar.
An ongoing project to compile and present the available radio broadcasts and recorded works of Orson Welles. Series/episode titles and dates are from Jonathan Rosenbaum's Career Chronology in This Is Orson Welles, cross-referenced against Jerry Haendiges' radio logs and verified with the individual broadcasts.
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This month's addition is a rare episode of Orson Welles Almanac, with guest star Monty Woolley:
OW Almanac - Monty Woolley (4-12-44)
Last Update: 8 November 2009
Radio and Records:
Columbia Workshop: (CBS)
Hamlet part 1 (9-19-36)
Hamlet part 2 (11-14-36)
The Fall of the City (4-11-37)
Les Miserables: (Mutual Broadcasting System)
The Bishop (7-23-37)
Javert (7-30-37)
The Trial (8-6-37)
Cosette (8-13-37)
The Grave (8-20-37)
The Barricade (8-27-37)
Finale (9-3-37)
Shakespeare Cycle: (CBS)
Twelfth Night (8-30-37)
The Shadow: (Mutual)
Death House Rescue (9-26-37)
Sabotage (1-16-38)
Society of the Living Dead (1-23-38)
The Poison Death (1-30-38)
Hounds in the Hills (2-20-38)
The Bride of Death (3-6-38)
The Fire Bug (6-19-38)
The White God (7-10-38)
Aboard the Steamship Amazon (7-17-38)
Murders in Wax (7-24-38)
The March of Time: (NBC-Blue)
3-6-31 [non-Welles]
10-5-34 [non-Welles]
11-18-37
11-25-37
2-3-38
2-10-38 [Welles portrays Adolf Hitler]
2-17-38
12-11-41 [non-Welles]
3-22-45 [non-Welles]
The Cradle Will Rock: (Musicraft Records)
Original Cast (Apr 38):
The Mercury Shakespeare: (Mercury Text Records/Columbia Masterworks)
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (Mar 38)
Twelfth Night (Jun 38)
Julius Caesar (Jul 38)
The Merchant of Venice (Sep 38)
Macbeth (Apr 40)
Macbeth Follies (Apr 40)
The Mercury Theatre on the Air: (CBS)
Dracula (7-11-38)
Treasure Island (7-18-38)
A Tale of Two Cities (7-25-38)
The 39 Steps (Rehearsal) (8-1-38)
The 39 Steps (8-1-38)
I’m a Fool/My Little Boy/The Open Window (8-8-38)
Abraham Lincoln (8-15-38)
The Affairs of Anatole (8-22-38)
The Count of Monte Cristo (8-29-38)
The Man Who Was Thursday (rehearsal) (9-4-38)
The Man Who Was Thursday (9-5-38)
Julius Caesar (Rehearsal) (9-11-38)
The Immortal Sherlock Holmes (9-25-38)
Hell on Ice (10-9-38)
Seventeen (10-16-38)
Around the World in Eighty Days (10-23-38)
The War of the Worlds (10-30-38)
The Heart of Darkness/Life with Father (11-6-38)
A Passenger to Bali (11-13-38)
The Pickwick Papers (11-20-38)
Silver Theatre: (NBC)
Stars in Their Courses Part One (11-13-38)
Stars in Their Courses Part Two (11-20-38)
One Step Ahead (3-30-41)
The Campbell Playhouse: (CBS)
Rebecca (12-9-38) (w/Margaret Sullavan)
A Christmas Carol (12-22-38) (Welles as Scrooge)
Counselor-at-Law (1-6-39) (w/Aline MacMahon)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1-13-39)
I Lost My Girlish Laughter (1-27-39) (w/George S. Kaufman)
Arrowsmith (2-3-39) (w/Helen Hayes)
The Green Goddess (2-10-39) (w/Madeleine Carroll)
The Glass Key (3-10-39)
Beau Geste (3-17-39) (w/Laurence Olivier, Noah Beery) [syndication cuts]
Twentieth Century (3-24-39)
Showboat (3-31-39) (w/Margaret Sullavan)
The Patriot (4-14-39) (w/Anna May Wong)
Private Lives (4-21-39) (w/Gertrude Lawrence)
Wickford Point (5-5-39)
Our Town (5-12-39)
The Bad Man (5-19-39) (w/Ida Lupino)
Things We Have (5-26-39) (w/Cornelia Otis Skinner)
Victoria Regina (6-2-39) (w/Helen Hayes)
Peter Ibbetson (9-10-39) (w/Helen Hayes) [syndication cuts]
Ah, Wilderness (9-17-39) [syndication cuts]
What Every Woman Knows (9-24-39) (w/Helen Hayes)
The Count of Monte Cristo (10-1-39)
Algiers (10-8-39) (w/Paulette Goddard)
Escape (10-15-39) (w/Wendy Barrie)
Liliom (10-22-39) (w/Helen Hayes)
The Magnificent Ambersons (10-29-39) (w/Walter Huston)
The Hurricane (11-5-39) (w/Mary Astor)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (11-12-39) (w/Edna May Oliver)
The Garden of Allah (11-19-39) (w/Madeleine Carroll)
Dodsworth (11-26-39) (w/Fay Bainter) [syndication cuts]
Lost Horizon (12-3-39) (w/Sigrid Gurie)
Venessa (12-10-39) (w/Helen Hayes) [syndication cuts]
There’s Always a Woman (12-17-39)
A Christmas Carol (12-24-39) (w/Lionel Barrymore)
Vanity Fair (1-7-40) (w/Helen Hayes) [syndication cuts]
Theodora Goes Wild (1-14-40) (w/Loretta Young)
The Citadel (1-21-40) (w/Geraldine Fitzgerald)
It Happened One Night (1-28-40) (w/William Powell)
Broome Stages (2-4-40) (w/Helen Hayes)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (2-11-40) (w/Gertrude Lawrence)
Dinner at Eight (2-18-40) (w/Lucille Ball, Hedda Hopper)
Only Angels Have Wings (2-25-40) (w/Joan Blondell)
Rabble in Arms (3-3-40)
Craig’s Wife (3-10-40) (w/Ann Harding) [syndication cuts]
Huckleberry Finn (3-17-40) (w/Jackie Cooper)
June Moon (3-24-40) (w/Jack Benny)
Jane Eyre (3-31-40) (w/Madeleine Carroll, Robert Coote)
The Jell-O Program (Jack Benny): (NBC)
3-17-40
KTSA Texas News Show: (KTSA, San Antonio)
Orson Welles Meets H. G. Wells (10-28-40)
The Sealtest Program (Rudy Vallee):
12-19-40 (w/John Barrymore)
George Washington, American: (WNEW)
2-22-41
The Free Company: (CBS)
His Honor, The Mayor (4-6-41)
Citizen Kane San Francisco Premiere: (CBS Newsfeed)
5-28-41 (w/Dorothy Comingore)
The Orson Welles Show (Lady Esther): (CBS)
Sredni Vashtar/An Irishman and a Jew (9-15-41)
The Interlopers/Song of Songs/I'm a Fool (9-29-41)
There's a Full Moon Tonight (excerpt) (10-06-41)
If in Years to Come (10-13-41)
Something's Going To Happen to Henry/Wilbur Brown, Habitat Brooklyn (12-1-41)
The Happy Prince (12-22-41)
The Apple Tree (1-12-42)
My Little Boy (1-19-42)
The Gulf Screen Guild Theatre: (CBS)
Between Americans (12-7-41)
We Hold These Truths: (all networks)
President’s Bill of Rights (12-15-41) (w/Lionel Barrymore, Jimmy Stewart, Edward G. Robinson, Walter Huston, President Roosevelt)
Cavalcade of America: (NBC)
The Great Man Votes (12-15-41)
Thunder from the Mountains (9-28-42)
Admiral of the Ocean Sea (10-12-42)
In the Best Tradition (10-26-42)
Suspense: (CBS)
The Hitchhiker (9-2-42)
The Most Dangerous Game (9-23-43) (w/Keenen Wynn)
The Lost Special (9-30-43) (w/Eustace Wyatt?)
Philomel Cottage (10-7-43) (w/Geraldine Fitzgerald)
Lazarus Walks (10-19-43)
The Marvelous Barastro (4-13-44)
The Dark Tower (5-4-44)
Donovan’s Brain (Part 1) (5-18-44)
Donovan’s Brain (Part 2) (5-25-44)
Donovan's Brain Parody (from Orson Welles Almanac) (5-31-44)
Information Please: (NBC)
9-18-42
The Texaco Star Theatre (Fred Allen): (NBC/AFRS)
10-18-42
Nazi Eyes on Canada: (CBC)
The Story of Alameda (10-25-42)
Hello Americans!: (CBS)
Brazil (11-15-42) (w/Carmen Miranda)
Christ of the Andes (11-22-42) (w/Edmond O’Brien)
Haiti (11-29-42)
The Alphabet of the Islands Part One (12-6-42)
The Alphabet of the Islands Part Two (12-13-42)
The Alphabet of the Islands Part Three (12-20-42)
Bad Will Ambassador (12-27-42)
Rhythms of the Americas (1-3-43)
Mexico (1-10-43)
Feed the World (1-17-43) (w/Jack Moss)
Romantic Rhythms of the Americas (1-24-43)
Pan-Americanism (1-31-43)
Ceiling Unlimited: (CBS)
Flying Fortress (11-9-42)
War Workers (12-14-42)
Gremlins (12-21-42)
Pan American Airlines (12-28-42)
The Future (2-1-43)
Rulers of Earth (1943)
The Grape Nuts Flakes Program (Jack Benny): (NBC)
3-14-43
3-21-43
3-28-43
4-4-43
4-11-43
The Pepsodent Show (Bob Hope): (NBC)
9-28-43
Command Performance: (CBS/AFRS)
12-21-43 (w/Fred Waring, Kate Smith)
Victory Extra (8-15-45) (partial cast: Bing Crosby, Dinah Shore, Bette Davis, Jimmy Durante, Lionel Barrymore, Marlene Dietrich, Burgess Meredith, Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth, Desi Arnaz, Ida Lupino, Ginger Rogers, George Montgomery, Ronald Coleman, William Powell, Lucille Ball, Cary Grant, Robert Montgomery, Loretta Young, Lena Horne, Johnny Mercer, Edward G. Robinson, Orson Welles, Danny Kaye, Herbert Marshall, Greer Garson)
Orson Welles Almanac: (CBS)
1-26-44 (w/Groucho Marx, Ray Collins)
2-2-44 (w/Lionel Barrymore)
2-23-44 (w/Hedda Hopper, Nat King Cole)
3-1-44 (w/Victor Moore, Nat King Cole)
3-8-44 (w/Lucille Ball)
3-15-44 (w/Charles Laughton)
3-22-44 (w/Betty Hutton)
3-29-44 (w/Mary Boland)
4-5-44 (w/Dennis Day)
4-12-44 (w/Monty Woolley)
5-3-44 (w/Lucille Ball, Aurora Miranda) [AFRS rebroadcast]
5-17-44 (w/Ann Sothern)
5-24-44 (w/The Wilde Twins)
5-31-44 (w/Marjorie Reynolds)
6-7-44 (special D-Day broadcast)
6-14-44 (Texarkana Hitler satire)
6-21-44 (w/Martha O’Driscoll)
6-28-44 (w/Lynn Bari)
7-5-44 (w/Lana Turner, Keenan Wynn)
7-12-44 (w/Susan Hayward)
7-19-44 (w/Ruth Terry)
The Chase and Sanborn Program (Bergen and McCarthy): (NBC)
4-2-44
10-29-44
11-05-44
Birdseye Open House (Dinah Shore):
5-11-44 (w/Mel Blanc)
Lux Radio Theater: (CBS)
Jane Eyre (6-5-44) (w/Loretta Young)
Break of Hearts (9-11-44) (w/Rita Hayworth)
A Tale of Two Cities (3-26-45)
Fifth War Loan Drive: (CBS)
6-19-44 (w/Lana Turner, Jack Benny, Ray Bolger, Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau)
The Song of Songs (Which Is Solomon’s): (Decca Records)
8-23-44
Philco Radio Hall of Fame: (ABC)
10-8-44 (w/Milton Berle, Mary Martin, Burl Ives)
12-24-44 (w/Bing Crosby)
This Is My Best: (CBS)
Around the World in Eighty Days (11-21-44)
The Plot To Overthrow Christmas (12-19-44)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (12-26-44)
Heart of Darkness (3-13-45)
Miss Dilly Says No (3-20-45) (w/Ann Sothern, Rita Hayworth)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (3-27-45) (w/Jane Powell, Jeanette Nolan)
Diamond as Big as the Ritz (4-3-45)
The Master of Ballantrae (4-10-45)
I'll Not Go Back (4-17-45)
Anything Can Happen (4-24-45)
Stop or Go (Joe E. Brown): (NBC-Blue)
11-26-44
G I Journal: (AFRS)
12-15-44 (w/Fay MacKenzie, Victor Moore, Mel Blanc)
Columbia Presents Corwin: (CBS)
New York: A Tapestry for Radio (7-10-45)
14 August (8-14-45)
French Radio Presents: (NBC)
The Liberation of Paris (7-17-45)
No Man Is an Island: (Decca Records)
1944-45
Orson Welles Commentaries: (ABC)
Prophecies, The Woman from Weehawken (9-23-45)
Dorris Miller Tribute (12-9-45) (excerpt)
The OPA Is Dead (6-23-46)
Bikini Atomic Test (6-30-46)
OPA One Year Extension (7-21-46)
Affidavit of Isaac Woodard (7-28-46)
The Peacemakers (8-4-46)
To Be Born Free (8-11-46)
Welles Film Banned (8-18-46)
The Place Was Batesburg (8-25-46)
The War Chest Program: (NBC)
What Price Victory? (9-29-45)
Request Performance: (CBS)
10-21-45 (w/Eddie Bracken, Johnny Mercer)
The Happy Prince: (Decca Records)
1946 (with Bing Crosby)
The Danny Kaye Show: (NBC)
The Wife of O'Riley (3-1-46)
Fred Allen Show: (NBC)
3-3-46
Radio Reader's Digest: (CBS)
Back for Christmas (3-31-46)
Mercury Summer Theatre: (CBS)
Around the World (6-7-46) (original cast with Cole Porter score)
The Count of Monte Cristo (6-14-46)
The Hitchhiker (6-21-46)
Jane Eyre (6-28-46)
A Passenger to Bali (7-5-46) (The Stranger announced as next week’s play)
The Search for Henri Lefevre (7-12-46)
Life with Adam (7-19-46) (w/Fletcher Markle)
The Moat Farm Murder (7-26-46)
Golden Honeymoon (8-2-46)
Hell on Ice (8-9-46)
Abednego, the Slave (8-16-46)
I’m a Fool/The Tell-Tale Heart (8-23-46)
Moby Dick (8-30-46)
The Apple Tree (9-6-46)
King Lear (9-13-46) (w/Agnes Moorehead, Edgar Barrier, William Alland)
Colgate Sports Newsreel (Bill Stern):
6-28-46
The Lives of Harry Lime: (Lang/Worth Syndication)
The Lives of Harry Lime - Radio Promos (1951)
1. Too Many Crooks (8-3-51)
2. See Naples and Live (8-10-51)
3. Clay Pigeon (8-17-51)
4. Ticket to Tangier (8-24-51)
5. Voodoo (8-31-51)
6. Bohemian Star (9-7-51)
7. Love Affair (9-14-51)
8. Rogue’s Holiday (9-21-51)
9. Work of Art (9-28-51)
10. Operation Music Box (10-5-51)
11. Golden Fleece (10-12-51)
12. Blue Bride (10-19-51)
13. Every Frame Has a Silver Lining (10-26-51)
14. Mexican Hat Trick (11-2-51)
15. Art Is Long and Lime Is Fleeting (11-9-51)
16. In Pursuit of a Ghost (11-16-51)
17. Horse Play (11-23-51)
18. Three Farthings for Your Thoughts (11-30-51)
19. The Third Woman (12-7-51)
20. An Old Moorish Custom (12-14-51)
21. It’s a Knockout (12-21-51)
22. Two Is Company (12-28-51)
23. Cherchez La Gem (1-4-52)
24. Hand of Glory (1-11-52)
25. Double Double Cross (1-18-52)
26. 5000 Pengoes and a Kiss (1-25-52)
27. Dark Enchantress (2-1-52)
28. Earl on Troubled Water (2-8-52)
29. Dead Candidate (2-15-52)
29. Dead Candidate (2-15-52) (reconstructed version)
30. It’s In the Bag (2-22-52)
31. Hyacinth Patrol (2-29-52)
32. Turnabout Is Foul Play (3-7-52)
33. Violets, Sweet Violets (3-14-52)
34. Faith, Lime and Charity (3-21-52)
35. Pleasure Before Business (3-28-52)
36. Fool’s Gold (4-4-52)
37. Man of Mystery (4-11-52)
38. The Painted Smile (4-18-52)
39. Harry Joins the Circus (4-25-52)
40. Suzie’s Cue (5-2-52)
41. Vive Le Chance (5-9-52)
42. Elusive Vermeer (5-16-52)
43. Murder on the Riviera (5-23-52)
44. Pearls of Bohemia (5-30-52)
45. A Night in a Harem (6-6-52)
46. Blackmail Is a Nasty Word (6-13-52)
47. The Professor Regrets (6-20-52)
48. The Hard Way (6-27-52)
49. Paris Is Not the Same (7-4-52)
50. Honeymoon (7-11-52)
51. The Blue Caribou (7-18-52)
52. Greek Meets Greek (7-25-52)
The Black Museum: (Lang/Worth Syndication) (1952)
.22 Calibre Pistol
.32 Calibre Bullet
Bathtub
Bed Sheet
Black Gladstone Bag
Bloodstained Brickbat
Brass Button
Can of Weed Killer
Canvas Bag
Car Tire
Champagne Glass
Claw Hammer
Door Key
Faded Tartan Scarf
Four Small Bottles
French-English Dictionary
Gas Receipt
Glass Shards
Hammerhead
Jack Handle
Jar of Acid
Khaki Handkerchief
Lady’s Shoe
Leather Bag
Letter
Mandolin String
Meat Juice
Notes
Old Wooden Mallet
Open End Wrench
Pair of Spectacles
Piece of Iron Chain
Pink Powderpuff
Post Card
Prescription
Raincoat
Sash Cord
Service Card
Sheath Knife
Shilling
Shopping Bag
Silencer
Small White Boxes
Spotted Bedsheet
Straight Razor
Tan Shoe
Telegram
Trunk
Two Bullets
Walking Stick
Woman’s Pigskin Glove
Wool Jacket
Sherlock Holmes: (BBC)
The Final Problem (1952) (w/John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson)
Song of Myself: (BBC)
4-12-53
Tomorrow: (ABC Radio/Federal Civil Defense Administration)
10-17-56
The Begatting of a President: (Mediarts Records) 1969
Salvation Army Christmas Album: (1979) [Welles segments only]
Theatre of the Imagination - The Mercury Company Remembers (1988)
TV Audio:
1955 Orson Welles' Sketchbook
1977 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1979 Filming Othello
TV Interviews:
1955 Ed Murrow
1960 Bernard Braden (Part 1)
1962 Huw Wheldon
1965 Patrick Watson
1966 Maysles Brothers
1971 Dick Cavett
1974 Michael Parkinson
1969-1975 Peter Bogdanovich
1979 Yugoslavian TV Interview
1980 Leslie Megahey (interview portions only)
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