Creating a complete radio collection

[Linn1]

A group online are creating as near a complete collection of Orson Welles on the radio. This is EVERY radio appearance, not just the shows he starred in. It also includes loads of audio extras. A couple of shows we have found haven't been out to the general public before. This is what is left we are looking for. If you have a Media Max account (you can get a free account easily), the collection will be free for the asking in exchange for any help. Thanks and GREAT site!


Mercury Theater - Lady Esther Presents
41/09/22 2 Golden Honeymoon/Murder In The Bank/The Right Side/The Sexes
41/10/06 4 The Black Pearl/Annabelle Lee/There's A Full Moon Tonight ONLY HAVE FRAGMENT
41/10/20 6 Romance/Kubila Khan/The Prisoner Of Assiout
41/11/10 8 That's Why I Left You/The Maysville Minstrel
41/11/24 10 A Farewell To Arms
41/12/08 12 Symptoms Of Being 35/Leaves Of Grass
41/12/29 14 There Are Frenchmen And Frenchmen
42/01/05 15 Garden Of Allah
42/01/26 18 The Happy Hypocrite

This Is My Best
45/10/16 42 Mr Bisbee's Princess

Ceiling Unlimited
42/11/09 1 Flying Fortress
42/11/16 2 Air Transport Command
42/11/23 3 The Navigator
42/11/30 4 Wind, Sand and Stars
42/12/07 5 Ballad of Bataan
43/01/04 9 Anti-Submarine Patrol
43/01/11 10 Finger in the Wind
43/01/18 11 Letter to Mother
43/01/25 12 Flyer Come Home (aka With Your Wings, Mrs James and the Pot of Tea)
43/09/05 38 A Smart Soldier Like Me
44/04/09 69 God's Corporals

Orson Welles Almanac AKA: Radio Almanac
44/02/09 3 Guest Ann Sothern
44/02/16 4 Guest Robert Benchley
44/04/12 12 Guest Monty Woolley
44/04/19 13 Guest George Jessel
44/04/26 14 Guest Carole Landis
44/05/10 16 Guest Jimmy Durante, Aurora Miranda

Guest Or Featured Appearances
Anthology. March 14, 1954. WNBC, New York. "Murder In The Past; Merriment From The Present".
Anthology. February 13, 1955
All-American Jazz Concert 460116
America's Town Meeting 450819 Town Meeting Of the Air
American School Of the Air 34XXXX
America's Hour 35XXXX CBS

Columbia Workshop 380228 Air Raid
Command Performance 470529 AFRS origination
Command Performance 450726 Herb Shriner, Orson Welles (45/07/26)
Commercials And Promos - WW2 Collection, The - Orson Welles - Payroll Savings Plan for War Bonds (xx/xx/xx)
Chicago Roundtable 441220
Cradle Will Rock WEVD 370627

Duffy's Tavern - Guest - Orson Welles (41/03/15)
Duffy's Tavern - Orson Welles (43/10/12)
Democratic National Committee 441101
Democratic National Committee 441106

Esquire Jazz Concert. January 1, 1947.
Exploring The Unknown. 1945 The Battle Never Ends
Ellery Queen 460310-Date is not correct for this show

1945 "The Eversharp Series" [8 recorded programs which are never broadcast]
Lobbying
G I Bill of Rights
New Year's
Post War
Epiphany
Shut-Eye
Grable
Inauguration

Fred Allen
--39/11/08 (6) Doughnut King
Forecast. September 1, 1941. Program #12
Front Page Drama. April 4, 1941.
Free World Theater 430523 Something About Joe
Federal Theater's Radio Divion Series of Classical Plays 1937
Free World Forum (short series) 4504XX
FDR Memorial Broadcast 450412
FDR Memorial Broadcast 450413
Fifth War Loan Drive 440520
Fifth War Loan Drive The Summing Up 440612
Fifth War Loan Drive Balance Sheet 440614
FDR/Dewey Debate 4409XX Welles Stands In For FDR

Gracie Fields Show, The - Guest - Orson Welles (44/08/13)
GI Journal 45XXXX

Henry Wallace. September 21, 1944. Mutual net. 10:00 P. M. A paid political announcement
Herald Tribune Forum 441018 Welles again stand in for FDR against Dewey

Inner Sanctum 440923 The Dream
Inner Sanctum 431127 (152) Death Strikes the Keys
Inner Sanctum 460416 (267) The Lonely Hearts Killer

Kate Smith Show 420822
Kate Smith Show 441015 The Dark Hours
Kate Smith Show 450128
Kate Smith Show 460315

Living Dramas Of the Bible CBS 37XXXX
Let Yourself Go 441002
Labor Party Broadcast CBS 441011

The March Of Time. 360314
The March Of Time. 360511
The March Of Time. 360513
The March Of Time. 360520
The March Of Time. 360527
The March Of Time 380310 Fiorello LaGuardia
The March Of Time 380317 Sigmund Freud
The March Of Time 371118 Haile Selassie
The March Of Time 371125 Amnesiac French Soldier
The March Of Time 380106 Paul Muni
The March Of Time 450322 + Others
Men, Machines & Victory 420911
Mail Call 45XXXX
Musical Reveries 360120 - 1937

New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. 431121
New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. 431128
New York Herald Tribune Forum. October 1944. An address by Orson Welles,
Now Is The Time. November 6, 1944. "A Soliloquy For Election year".
New Masses 3802XX Welles Reads Second Hurricane
Now Is the TimeL A Soliloquy For Election Year 441006

The Orson Welles Program. December 9, 1945.
The Orson Welles Program. June 30, 1946.
The Orson Welles Program. July 28, 1946

Pepsodent Show. September 28, 1943
Peter Absolute NBC 37XXXX
Philco Hall Of Fame 441224 The Happy Prince
Philco Hall Of Fame 441008
Portrait Of Robert Flaherty BBC 520902
Philip Morris Playhouse 421016
Philip Morris Playhouse 420925 Crime Without Passion
Parted On Her Bridal Tour Mutual 37XXXX
Pan-America Day 420414
President Vargas' Birthday 420418

Revlon Revue - Guests - Orson Welles, Charles Butterworth
Rudy Vallee
The Rudy Vallee Sealtest Show. January 16, 1941
--41/05/08
Radio Reader's Digest. 421214
Radio Reader's Digest 460331
Radio Reader's Digest 421011
Roses And Drums NBC 37XXXX
Russian-American Festival 42XXXX Welles narrates Peter & the Wolf

Sealtest Program 410417
Sealtest Program 410518

Suspense (089) 440427 Death Went Along for the Ride

Standard Brands Presents 37XXXX
Streamlined Shakespeare 37XXXX
Special V-E Day Broadcast 450507
Special V-E Day Broadcast (AFRS) 450507
Stage Door Canteen 45XXXX

This Is Radio. August 3, 1940. Mutual net.
This Is The U. N.: It's Actual Voices. October 15, 1950.
Theatre Royal. Towers Of London syndication. "The Queen Of Spades".
Treasury Star Parade. Program #115
Treasury Star Parade. 1942. Program #101. Treasury Department syndication. "The Chetniks".
The Texaco Star Theatre. October 18, 1942.
The Town Crier 35XXXX
The Red Cross Program 420126
Take It Or Leave It 431121
Texarkana Program 440603

U S Treasury Show 440427 Three Of A Kind
United Fund Appeal: Hospitals In Wartime 421013

The Victory Chest Program. September 29, 1945.

The Wonder Show 36XXXX The Birth Of the Sewing Machine Girl
The Wonder Show 36XXXX Sweeny Todd
The Wonder Show 36XXXX The Relief Of Lucknow
The Wonder Show 36XXXX
The Wonder Show 36XXXX
The Wonder Show 36XXXX
We, The People CBS 431114
Welles For Roosevelt NBC 441013
Welles For Roosevelt CBS 441027
Welles For Roosevelt Mutual 441030
Welles For Roosevelt
Welles For Roosevelt

[Nate H]

any info on how to hear these?

[Linn1]

This is the thread on the OTR-TNT forum that's dealing with this project. I also updated what's needed currently in the first post. Thanks for all the help everyone!

Welles project

[Glenn Anders]

Hi, Gang:

Stimulated by Store Hadji and Larry French's documentation of young Orson Welles' playing Hamlet on Radio, I did some research. [You will find that, even earlier, Welles took the part of Claudius(!) in a 1931 Gate Theater production of the great tragedy.] In the course of the research, I came up with something entirely different, which I post here in response to Linn1's recent appeal for fugitive Welles' radio work, a Civil Defense show: "Tomorrow -- 10-17-56." Though Welles receives no writing credit, the program's themes -- an America unprepared because of our innocence, ignorance and indifference -- reminds one of similar concerns and subjects that Welles returned to throughout his life.

The one hour drama, which I don't see listed in our archive or on Linn1's roster, narrated by Welles, was adapted by Milton Geiger from a work by Phillip Wylie (famous between the Wars for polemical novels about various forms of American cultural blindness), and stars Marshall Thompson and Mona Freeman. The story is "a tale of two cities," rather like Welles' 1938 "War of the Worlds," and Welles, in very fine voice, drops in throughout the action to make both affectionate and wry comments on our lack of preparation for catastrophe.

The script contains a number of not-so-subtle references to the 1938 Mercury Theater program -- i.e. the hero, home on leave, meets the heroine and playfully wonders if she has been on Mars.

The show is not great drama, it is obvious propaganda, but it is pretty close to being great Radio. You may find the program here:

http://www.archive.org/details/otr_civi ... rsonwelles

At the end Phillip Wylie remarks (rather enigmatically, I thought) that we have ten years to become prepared for an attack. Some auditors, reviewing the show, reflected that nearly 50 years later, we were not prepared, are still not prepared, in even the most rudimentary fashion.

I suppose Welles would say that the nemesis we face, which we may think of as "Martian," is really ourselves.

Glenn