The Free Company presents   HIS HONOR THE MAYOR A radio play by ORSON WELLES http://www.box.net/shared/xky7hn4uxk As originally broadcast on April 6, 1941 on CBS _______________ For what avail the plow or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail. —Ralph Waldo Emerson  JAMES BOYD: Today our theme is an ancient and fundamental democratic right, which […]
Here is a complete transcript of the radio script Orson Welles wrote for what is essentially the first draft of Mr. Arkadin. It was heard as part of the Harry Alan Towers produced radio show The Lives of Harry Lime.
Many thanks to Store Hadji for providing the link to Orson Welles brilliant broadcast of Hamlet on CBS radio in September and November, 1936. Here are the links to listen to this amazing broadcast: Part one: http://www.box.net/shared/kx46fg2h9i Part two:  http://www.box.net/shared/sj7seahtem _______________________ I had never heard this one-hour adaptation before, (done in two parts), which is one of Welles earliest known […]
Note: This was originally published on the site in December 2004, but in part of an ongoing effort to streamline the site, it is being republished through the News page in order to make it easier to find. Other “classic” Wellesnet items will be posted this way in the coming days and weeks. -Jeff W […]
Here are some musical gems: Nine rare tracks from the Mercury Jazz Combo available for listening from the Louisiana Digital Library – see the link below. 1. Orson Welles: Introduction to the Mercury Jazz Combo 2. High Society 3. Orson Welles on ‘real’ Jazz/Carolina in the Morning 4. Orson Welles elegy to Jimmie Noone/Jimmie’s Blues 5. […]
As noted on the message board, Simon Callow’s adaptation of Micheal MacLiammoir’s memoir Put Money In Thy Purse is being given a re-broadcast this Saturday on BBC5 radio. The play will be available for listening for the week following, so you have plenty of time to catch it. On a site note: does anyone know […]
…Which of course begs the question, “Why bother?” But Mind City Productions decided that an animated version of Welles’ Mercury Summer Theater broadcast of Lucille Fletcher’s radio classic “The Hitch Hiker” was needed, and so we’re here to provide a look at it. First off, the disc appears to be a DVD-R, and two of […]