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The Pickwick Papers

Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2019 9:48 pm
by Wellesnet
Based on Charles Dickens' first novel, published in 1836
One of the last of the Mercury Theater on the Air shows, before it became The Campbell Playhouse. Broadcast on November 20, 1938.
Welles considered it as a follow up to Citizen Kane, and wanted John Barrymore and WC Fields to co-star.

The Pickwick Papers

Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2020 8:16 pm
by Black Irish
Great book. Didn't want it to end. Would have been a great film; but then we might not have Ambersons.

Re: OW & the Auteur Theory

Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2021 1:24 pm
by Wellesnet
Unfortunately not at the IU Welles radio website. But it is on Youtube in pretty good sound:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKQab__XO5Y&t=1324s