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Mystery Theater: The Black Museum: Orson Welles 2/2

The Black Museum: Orson Welles

The Black Museum: Orson Welles 2/2

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Mystery Theater, The Black Museum: Orson Welles 2/2

Orson Welles' tale inspired by a case from Scotland Yard's gallery of murder artefacts.

1950. The Raincoat. Orson Welles' tale inspired by a real case from Scotland Yard's gruesome gallery of murder artefacts.

The Raincoat: Orson Welles' tale inspired by a real case from Scotland Yard's gruesome gallery of crime-related ephemera
 
Even a simple garment like a raincoat can be connected to the brutal murder of a married woman. 
 
In The Black Museum, Orson is your host and guide through tales based on the grim and ominous collection of objects connected to significant British crimes. 
 
Writer: Ira Marion. 
 
Music:  Sydney Torch 
 
Producer: Harry Alan Towers
 
The films of Orson Welles have guaranteed him a place in the pantheon of film heroes (Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, Touch of Evil). This series is one of several fascinating sidesteps into a medium which arguably contributed to Welles' success - radio. Thanks to Harry Alan Towers, British radio was host to his dulcet tones for a spell in the early 1950s - including his famous cinematic anti-hero in The Lives of Harry Lime. 
 
Presented by arrangement with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer radio attractions

Produced by Towers of London and first broadcast in the USA in 1952.

4 Extra's MYSTERY THEATER showcases American radio's golden years of the 1940s and 50s, when many of Hollywood's greatest screen stars were regular performers, often re-enacting film roles.

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