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Orson Welles - the Storyteller

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

In the first of three programmes, Simon Callow traces the life of Orson Welles.
Born in 1915, Welles was intellectually brilliant, flamboyant and physically imposing. Using archive material, Callow traces the early years of the gifted Welles, up to the extraordinary creativity that characterised his "Mercury Theatre of the Air". Revised repeat

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