The original uncut Radio Broadcast.  On the evening of October 30th, 1938, Earth went to war with Mars. Martians invaded New Jersey!  Here is the famous panic-inducing broadcast that shook the world, starring Orson Welles.

The War of the Worlds (Dramatized)

Here are 12 acclaimed, exciting, fully dramatized performances of Conan Doyle classics. It's elementary that any Conan Doyle fan will want this splendid set of Sherlock Holmes mysteries, 12 timeless tales performed as radio theater and linked by viol...

Sherlock Holmes

Orson Welles' dramatic anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air, infamous for its Halloween broadcast of The War of the Worlds, found a sponsor and became Campbell Playhouse in December 1938. The program continued to feature the charismatic and fiery Welles as both a host and an actor. The great Lionel Barrymore portrayed Ebenezer Scrooge in Campbell Playhouse's annual performance of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

A Christmas Carol (Radio Spirits Version - Dramatized)

One of the most memorable programs in broadcast history, the Halloween Eve 1938 broadcast of The War of the Worlds set off a nationwide panic that's almost unimaginable today. Presented by the Mercury Theatre on the Air and its creative genius, Orson...

This collection contains six classic Christmas radio productions from the '30s, '40s, and '50s:   "A Christmas Carol" from Campbell Playhouse, with Orson Welles as host and Lionel Barrymore as Ebeneezer Scrooge (December 24, 1939) "Christmas by Injun...

Classic Christmas Radio Plays

If you are a lover of old-time radio and a fan of Orson Welles, you won't want to miss this treasure chest of legendary Orson Welles radio broadcasts! With his flair for the sensational and innovative, Welles captured audiences' attention with his 19...

Orson Welles: The Ultimate Collection

The third volume of classic Sherlock Holmes stories on audio, brilliantly performed by John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson.  Contents:"The Final Problem": Orson Welles makes a guest appearance in the role of the master criminal, Professor Moriarty, in ...

The Best of Sherlock Holmes, Volume 4

The Mercury Theatre on the Air, a radio series created by Orson Welles, presented adaptations of classic literary works. These were performed by actors from Welles' celebrated Mercury Theatre repertory company, with music composed or arranged by Bernard Herrmann. The series ran from July to December 1938, after which the title was changed to The Campbell Playhouse.

Mercury Theatre: The War of the Worlds - October 30, 1938

"The original and immortal stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle…"  Sir John Gielgud stars as Sherlock Holmes with Sir Ralph Richardson as Dr. Watson. John's brother, Val Gielgud, the celebrated mystery author and producer, directs several episodes and c...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Written in 1833, Alexander Pushkin’s The Queen of Spades is a tale of avarice and madness. Orson Welles plays Hermann, an ethnic German serving in the Russian army. He believes that his fortune will be won at the gaming table, if only he can discover...

The Queen of Spades

Starring Orson Welles, Anges Moorehead, and Ray Collins, The Count of Monte Cristo is a tale of revenge and retribution. Edmond Dantès, a young, energetic sailor, is falsely accused of treason on his wedding day and incarcerated in the forbidding Châ...

The Count of Monte Cristo (Dramatized)

Bedtime, playtime, and long voyages in the car will never be the same again as families gather to listen to classic tales brought to life by award-winning performers. Audrey Hepburn performs selections from her Grammy Award winning "Enchanted Tales" ...

Treasury of Classic Children's Stories

The Shadow - One of the most popular radio shows in history. The show went on the air in August of 1930. "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!" The opening lines of the Detective Story program captivated listeners and are...

The Shadow - The Complete Radio Show Collection - Volume 2

Orson Welles both starred in and directed The Campbell Playhouse, a radio drama (1938-40) produced by Welles and John Houseman. The episodes include adaptions of classic novels and plays, as well as radio versions of the era's popular films.

Campbell Playhouse: Our Town - May 12, 1939

Orson Welles, host and narrator of Black Museum, welcomed listeners to Scotland Yard's "warehouse of homicide", containing everyday objects that either brought a killer to justice or were used to do a killer's dirty work. In each episode, Welles strolls through the "repository of death", selects one object, and tells its story.

Black Museum

This collection contains 12 of the greatest mystery shows ever broadcast during the golden age of radio! You'll hear Richard Widmark starring in Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Orson Welles in The Black Museum, Peter Lorre in Mystery in the Air, William Con...

Classic Radio's Greatest Mystery Shows, Vol. 1

The CBS Campbell Playhouse 1939 broadcast of A Christmas Carol.  Back before television, a holiday season tradition in America was listening to A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens as performed on radio by Lionel Barrymore and narrated by Orson Welles with the Mercury Theatre group. The music was composed and conducted by the legendary Bernard Herrmann. 

A Christmas Carol: Campbell Playhouse (Dramatized)

This is the "so-called" reason the government won't reveal all they know about UFOs. The panic from this broadcast was significant. Although Orson Welles, Mercury Theatre and the Columbia Broadcasting System couldn't "soap the windows" of their liste...

War of the Worlds: The Radio Show that Changed the World

Orson Welles stars in this dramatisation of Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

A Christmas Carol (Dramatised)

Das amerikanische Kult-Hörspiel im Original.  Marsbewohner landen in New Jersey. Ein Radioreporter berichtet live von ihrem Angriff auf die Bevölkerung. Die Hörer erleben ein beklemmendes Szenario... bis Orson Welles es in der Absage zum Halloween-Sc...

The War of the Worlds

The Shadow - The Complete Radio Show Collection - Volume 3

This episode of Bob Hope's classic NBC radio show, broadcast from the US Navy facility on California's Terminal Island, originally aired on September 28, 1943.  Bob Hope made his radio debut on NBC in May 1937. He became a top-rated fixture on Tuesda...

Bob Hope Show

The Greatest Mysteries of All Time, Volume 6 is an exciting addition to this series, featuring the most acclaimed writers, past and present. This unique collection of master writers, including Wilkie Collins, Aldous Huxley, and Edith Wharton, edited by multi-award winning mystery connoisseur Otto Penzler, is a delightful mixture of mystery and suspense.

The Greatest Mysteries of All Time, Volume 6

Fully restored and remastered, Heritage Media presents the greatest of vintage artists in classic dramas from the literature of Russia. Here is the legendary Orson Welles starring in ‘The Queen of Spades’, adapted from the original tale by Alexander ...

Classic Russian Dramas Starring Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Michael Redgrave and Trevor Howard, Volume 1

In this adventure series, Orson Welles reprised his movie role as Harry Lime, the character created by novelist Graham Greene in The Third Man.

The Lives of Harry Lime

Orson Welles both starred in and directed The Campbell Playhouse, a radio drama (1938-40) produced by Welles and John Houseman. The episodes include adaptions of classic novels and plays as well as radio versions of the era's popular films. 

Campbell Playhouse: A Christmas Carol - December 24, 1939

Orson Welles, Sir Laurence Olivier, and Michael Redgrave present a collection of classic Russian fiction including "The Overcoat", "The Queen of Spades", and "A Day in the Country."

Classic Russian Short Stories

Campbell Playhouse: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - November 12, 1939

A full-cast dramatization of the classic, starring Orson Welles.

Treasure Island (Dramatised)

The CBS Radio series Orson Welles' Almanac was usually a half-hour variety show. But on June 7, 1944, the day after the D-Day landing in France by Allied forces, Welles presented this special dramatic broadcast. Starring Agnes Moorehead, it takes the form of a mother's letter to her son (with a Wellesian twist at the end).

Orson Welles' Almanac

Mercury Theatre: Dracula - July 11, 1938

Audie Award Winning Audio  Here is the quintessence of romance that spans not only the ages but the full range of passionate expression of love in all of its forms and stages. Authors include John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Blake.

The Poetry of the Romantics

This spectacular and haunting version of Bram Stoker's Dracula stars Orson Welles and was performed in 1938. Between 1879 and 1889, Bram Stoker was business manager for the world-famous Lyceum Theatre in London, where he supplemented his income by writing a large number of sensational novels. This, perhaps his most famous tale about the vampire Dracula, was published in 1897.

Dracula

Orson Welles presents a condensed version of Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night.

Twelfth Night

Mercury Theatre: The Immortal Sherlock Holmes - September 25, 1938

Mercury Theatre: Julius Caesar - September 11, 1938

This radio drama starring Orson Welles originally aired on December 7, 1941, the day of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Between Americans

Here are legendary director, producer, screenwriter, author, and actor Orson Welles' historic interpretations of excerpts from classic literature. Includes selections from Oscar Wilde's "The Happy Prince", H.G. Wells' "The Red Room", Saki's "Shredni ...

The Masterworks of Orson Welles

The lure of the American West is in the spirit of adventure, in the majestic expanse of unconquered wilderness, and in rugged individuals on a quest for identity and, sometimes, for survival. Owen Wister's unsmiling Virginian... Dorothy M. Johnson's,...

The American West in Fiction

Campbell Playhouse: A Christmas Carol - December 23, 1938

Here are 12 episodes of the classic mystery radio show The Black Museum.  The Black Museum was a weekly radio crime drama produced for the BBC in 1951 and based on real-life cases from the files of Scotland Yard. Orson Welles, who was living in Londo...

The Black Museum, Vol. 1

Mercury Theatre: Treasure Island - July 18, 1938

Made as a prequel to the hit film The Third Man, this radio show was created to follow the adventures of the popular character Harry Lime, played here and in the movie by Orson Welles.  The 1949 film The Third Man won an Academy Award and was an inte...

The Lives of Harry Lime, a.k.a. The Third Man, Vol. 1

Mercury Theatre: The Pickwick Papers - November 20, 1938

Orson Welles stars in this full-cast performance of Dumas' classic novel.

The Count of Monte Cristo

Campbell Playhouse: The Magnificent Ambersons - October 29, 1939

Campbell Playhouse: Lost Horizon - December 3, 1939

A short conversation between the famous author and the famous actor and director who adapted The War of the Worlds for radio. The program was originally broadcast on KTSA, San Antonio, Texas.

H.G. Wells Meets Orson Welles - October 28, 1940

In a surreal turn-of-the-century London, Gabriel Syme, a poet, is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist taskforce at Scotland Yard. Lucian Gregory, an anarchist poet, is the only poet in Saffron Park, until he loses his temper in an argument over the ...

The Man Who Was Thursday

Mercury Theatre: The Count of Monte Cristo - August 29, 1938

Mercury Theatre: The Man Who Was Thursday - September 5, 1938

Mercury Theatre: Around the World in 80 Days - October 23, 1938

Treasure Island, here starring Orson Welles, is the classic tale of pirates, treasure maps, danger, and buried treasure chests! Join young Jim Hawkins on his adventures on the high sea as he searches for the gold of the evil Captain Flint. Pieces of eight!! Pieces of eight!! This is one of the Classic Radio Theatre productions you will want to listen to over and over again!

Treasure Island: Retro Audio (Dramatised)

Join Mr. Samuel Pickwick, the founder and chairman of the Pickwick Club, which consists of Tupman, Snodgrass, and Winkle, in amusing and ridiculous adventures within The Pickwick Papers, starring Orson Welles!This is one of the Classic Radio Theatre productions you will want to listen to over and over again!

The Pickwick Papers

Campbell Playhouse: Ah, Wilderness - September 17, 1939

Campbell Playhouse: The Count of Monte Cristo - October 1, 1939

The Mercury Theatre was an independent repertory company founded in New York City in 1937 by Orson Welles and producer John Houseman, who is best known for his Oscar-winning performance as Professor Charles Kingsfield in the The Paper Chase. After a ...

The Mercury Theatre on the Air, Vol. 1

Captain Bligh leaves London for Tahiti in charge of his crew on the Bounty. At sea he shows himself to be a brutal tyrant and cruel whilst enforcing discipline which includes flogging the men, cutting rations and over zealously working them too hard....

Mutiny On The Bounty

Orson Welles stars as Phileas Fogg of London, who together with his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager set by his friends at the Reform Club.

Around The World in 80 Days

Campbell Playhouse: Huckleberry Finn - March 17, 1940

These classic Sherlock Holmes performances by Gielgud, Richardson and Welles were first broadcast in the 1950s.

Doctor Watson Meets Sherlock Holmes & The Final Problem

Campbell Playhouse: Rabble in Arms - March 3, 1940

Set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, A Tale of Two Cities depicts the plight of the French peasantry under the demoralization of the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality...

A Tale of Two Cities

Campbell Playhouse: Rebecca - December 9, 1938

Campbell Playhouse: Beau Geste - March 17, 1939

Campbell Playhouse: Craig's Wife - March 10, 1940

Mercury Theatre: Three Short Stories - I'm a Fool, The Open Window, and My Little Boy - August 8, 1938

Three brothers of a well-to-do English family join the French Foreign Legion. This is an abridged staged performance of Beau Geste, starring Sir Laurence Olivier and Orson Welles.

Beau Geste (Dramatised)

Les Miserables (1937) was Orson Welles' first radio series. He served as actor, director, producer, and adaptor, developing narrative and audio techniques that would later be used for The Mercury Theatre on the Air. The episodes are:  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  Conclusion 9/3/37

Orson Welles: Les Miserables, Episode 2, Javert

Les Miserables (1937) was Orson Welles' first radio series. He served as actor, director, producer, and adaptor, developing narrative and audio techniques that would later be used for The Mercury Theatre on the Air.  The episodes are:  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  Conclusion 9/3/37

Orson Welles: Les Miserables, Episode 3, The Trial

Les Miserables (1937) was Orson Welles' first radio series. He served as actor, director, producer, and adaptor, developing narrative and audio techniques that would later be used for The Mercury Theatre on the Air.  The episodes are:  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  Conclusion 9/3/37

Orson Welles: Les Miserables, Episode 7, Conclusion

Mercury Theatre: Heart of Darkness - Life with Father - November 6, 1938

Campbell Playhouse: Mutiny on the Bounty - January 13, 1939

Jackie Cooper and Orson Welles star in this performance of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Campbell Playhouse: Dodsworth - November 26, 1939

Victor Hugo wrote in his classic Les Misérables, book five, chapter four: "God is behind everything, but everything hides God." Hugo's immortal classic, an epic story of redemption set in Paris after the French Revolution, clearly illustrates the sav...

Les Misérables

Campbell Playhouse: Victoria Regina - June 2, 1939

Mercury Theatre: Mercury Theatre - A Passenger to Bali - November 13, 1938

Campbell Playhouse: The Hurricane - November 5, 1939

Mercury Theatre: The 39 Steps - August 1, 1938

The period of English romantic poetry occurred roughly between 1800 and 1850 and was represented by poets such as William Blake, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and William Wordsworth. All of these poets are featured in this collection of more than 50 poems read by award-winning actors that include Joan Allen, Julie Christie, Stephen Fry, Glenda Jackson, and Jude Law.

Poetry of the Romantics

Les Miserables (1937) was Orson Welles' first radio series. He served as actor, director, producer, and adaptor, developing narrative and audio techniques that would later be used for The Mercury Theatre on the Air.  The episodes are:  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  Conclusion 9/3/37

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