Category: Amazing World of Radio

Feed for the Amazing World of Radio podcast.

AWR0038: Les Miserables: The Bishop

Amazing World of Radio

In the first part of Orson Welles’ adaptation of Victor Hugo’s classic novel, a man who spent 19 years as a galley slave for stealing a loaf of bread and repeated escape attempts finds himself treated as a pariah by all until he meets one man.

Original Air Date: July 23, 1937

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AWR0037: The Big Show: Christmas Program

Tallulah Bankhead plans a Christmas party for Margaret O’Brien.

Features Jimmy Durante, Ed Wynn, and Bert Lahr.

Original Air Date: December 24, 1950

AWR0036: Grand Central Station: A Miracle for Christmas

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A new internist declared dead shows up alive at a hospital on Christmas Eve and partners with a jaded ambulance driver.

Original Air Date: December 24, 1949

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Superman 1020: The Mystery of the Walking Dead

A cult leader turned murderer who Lois sent to Death Row pledges to come back from the dead and get him revenge. Then Lois starts hearing his voice.

Original Air Date: October 29, 1949

Superman 1019: The Case of the Double Trouble

Clark Kent is accused of a crime while another city, but his alibi is challenged by the testimony of Jimmy Olsen.

Original Air Date: March 9, 1949

AWR0035: Father Knows Best: Happy Thanksgiving

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Everyone in the Anderson family has their own Thanksgiving plans.

Original Air Date: November 23, 1950

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AWR0034: Bold Venture: Shannon’s a Sucker

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A brother of an old friend of Slate’s shows up to spend time with Slate and asks for Slate’s help. Secretly, he’s on the run from the police for conning passengers on a boat.

Original Air Date: October 1, 1951

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AWR0033: Bold Venture: That Gun Kills You and the Search for Tommy Reed

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Two episodes of Bold Venture

In That Gun Kills You, a series of murders accompany a married couple from Havana.

In The Search for Tommy Reed, a wealthy woman asks Slate to find her husband.

Original Air Dates: May 14 and August 6, 1951

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AWR0032: Bold Venture: Slate’s Old Flame (Summer of Bogart)

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An old girlfriend of Slate’s shows up and drives a wedge between Slate and Sailor, but she has a more nefarious goal in mind.

Original Air Date: August 21, 1951

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AWR0031: Bold Venture: Deadly Merchandise (Summer of Bogart)

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A customer who wanted them to bring merchandise to Cuba doesn’t show up at his scheduled rendezvous with The Bold Venture. When they get back to Cuba, Slade and Sailor find many people want the cargo they don’t have—and are willing to kill for it.

Original Air Date: March 26, 1953

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AWR0030: The Bing Crosby Show (Summer of Bogart)

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Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Becall guest star in an episode of the Bing Crosby show for Chesterfields. Bing and Becall perform a scene from the African Queen with Bogart

Original Air Date: March 12, 1952

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AWR0029: Lux Radio Theater: The African Queen (Summer of Bogart)

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Trapped in German East Africa at the start of World War I, a missionary woman and a river boat captain journey down the Ulanga River in a quest to blow up a German gunboat.

Original Air Date: December 15, 1952

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AWR0028: Humphrey Bogart Presents: Dead Man (Summer of Bogart)

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An unaired pilot for a Bogart-produced anthology series in which Humphrey Bogart plays a railroad policeman who is killed by a young hobo who hears the dead policeman’s voice wherever he goes.

Audition Date: September 17, 1949

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AWR0027: Lux Radio Theater: Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Summer of Bogart)

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An old, experienced prospector (Walter Huston) joins with two young men (Humphrey Bogart and Frank Lovejoy) to hunt for gold on a mountain in Mexico.

Original Air Date: April 18, 1949

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AWR0026: Lux Radio Theater: To Have and Have Not (Summer of Bogart)

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A roguish American boat captain (Humphrey Bogart) tries to stay out of World War II in Martinique but is pulled into a web of intrigue along with an alluring young woman (Lauren Becall).

Original Air Date: October 14, 1946

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