This is a comprehensive listing of the radio programs made by Orson Welles. Welles was often uncredited for his work, particularly in the years 1934–1937, and he apparently kept no record of his broadcasts.
1934 DateNetworkLengthSeriesDetailsSurviving recordingInvolvementActorDirectorProducerWriter 1934 CBS 30 min. The American School of the Air
1935 DateNetworkLengthSeriesDetailsSurviving recordingInvolvementActorDirectorProducerWriter March 22 CBS 30 min. The March of Time Welles's series debut Noble, Peter, The Fabulous Orson Welles. London: Hutchinson and Co., 1956. July 14 –September 22 CBS 60 min. America's Hour August 26 CBS 15 min. The March of Time December 13 CBS 15 min. Chopin 1935 CBS 30 min. Cavalcade of America
1936 DateNetworkLengthSeriesDetailsSurviving recordingInvolvementActorDirectorProducerWriter January 20–July 18 CBS 15 min. Musical Reveries March 13 CBS 15 min. The March of Time March 22 CBS 30 min. Terror by Night "The Bells" May 11 CBS 15 min. The March of Time May 13 CBS 15 min. The March of Time May 14 CBS 15 min. The March of Time May 20 CBS 15 min. The March of Time May 27 CBS 15 min. The March of Time July 18 CBS 30 min. Columbia Workshop Series debut September 6 Mutual 60 min. The Wonder Show Heyer, Paul, The Medium and the Magician: Orson Welles, the Radio Years 1934–1952. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005 September 13 Mutual 60 min. The Wonder Show September 19 CBS 30 min. Columbia Workshop "Hamlet", Part 1 September 20 Mutual 60 min. The Wonder Show September 27 Mutual 60 min. The Wonder Show October 4 Mutual 60 min. The Wonder Show October 11 Mutual 60 min. The Wonder Show November 14 CBS 30 min. Columbia Workshop "Hamlet", Part 2 1936 Red 30 min. Peter Absolute The Racine Journal-Times Sunday Bulletin, February 23, 1936, p. 4.
1937 DateNetworkLengthSeriesDetailsSurviving recordingInvolvementActorDirectorProducerWriter February 28 CBS 30 min. Columbia Workshop "Macbeth" April 11 CBS 30 min. Columbia Workshop "The Fall of the City" July 23 Mutual 30 min. Les Misérables Chapter 1: "The Bishop" July 30 Mutual 30 min. Les Misérables Chapter 2: "Javert" August 6 Mutual 30 min. Les Misérables Chapter 3: "The Trial" August 13 Mutual 30 min. Les Misérables Chapter 4: "Cosette" August 15 CBS 30 min. Columbia Workshop "Escape", Part 1 August 20 Mutual 30 min. Les Misérables Chapter 5: "The Grave" August 22 CBS 30 min. Columbia Workshop "Escape", Part 2 August 27 Mutual 30 min. Les Misérables Chapter 6: "The Barricade" August 30 CBS 30 min. Columbia's Shakespeare "Twelfth Night" September 3 Mutual 30 min. Les Misérables Chapter 7: "The Final Episode" September 26 Mutual 30 min. The Shadow "Death House Rescue" October 3 Mutual 30 min. The Shadow "The Red Macaw" October 10 Mutual 30 min. The Shadow "Danger in the Dark" October 17 Mutual 30 min. The Shadow "Murder by the Dead" October 24 Mutual 30 min. The Shadow "The Temple Bells of Neban" October 28 Blue 30 min. The March of Time Welles as Lord Chancellor for George VI October 31 Mutual 30 min. The Shadow "The Three Ghosts" November 7 Mutual 30 min. The Shadow "Death Rides the Skyway" November 14 Mutual 30 min. The Shadow "Terror Island" November 18 Blue 30 min. The March of Time Welles as Haile Selassie November 21 Mutual 30 min. The Shadow "The Ruby of Modoc" November 25 Blue 30 min. The March of Time Welles as amnesiac French soldier November 28 Mutual 30 min. The Shadow "Circle of Death" December 5 Mutual 30 min. The Shadow "The House of Greed" December 12 Mutual 30 min. The Shadow "The Death Triangle" December 19 Mutual 30 min. The Shadow "Cold Death" December 26 Mutual 30 min. The Shadow "The Voice of Death" 1937 CBS 30 min. Living Dramas of the Bible Indiana Evening Gazette, July 10, 1937, page 6 1937 Blue 30 min. Roses and Drums 1937 Mutual Parted on Her Bridal Tour
1938 DateNetworkLengthSeriesDetailsSurviving recordingInvolvementActorDirectorProducerWriter January 2 Mutual 30 min. The Shadow "The Goddess of Death" January 2 Blue 60 min. The Magic Key January 6 Blue 30 min. The March of Time Welles as Paul Muni, Fredric March, Spencer Tracy and Cecil B. DeMille January 9 Mutual 30 min. The Shadow "The League of Terror" January 13 Blue 30 min. The March of Time January 16 Mutual 30 min. The Shadow "Sabotage" January 20 Blue 30 min. The March of Time January 23 Mutual 30 min. The Shadow "The Society of the Living Dead" January 27 Blue 30 min. The March of Time January 30 Mutual 30 min. The Shadow "The Poison Death" February 3 Blue 30 min. The March of Time February 6 Mutual 30 min. The Shadow "The Phantom Voice" February 10 Blue 30 min. The March of Time February 13 Mutual 30 min. The Shadow "The House of Horror" February 20 Mutual 30 min. The Shadow "Hounds in the Hills" February 27 Mutual 30 min. The Shadow "The Plot Murder" March 3 Blue 30 min. The March of Time Welles as Austrian government agent March 6 Mutual 30 min. The Shadow "The Bride of Death" March 10 Blue 30 min. The March of Time Welles as Fiorello LaGuardia March 13 Mutual 30 min. The Shadow "The Silent Avenger" March 17 Blue 30 min. The March of Time Welles as Sigmund Freud March 20 Mutual 30 min. The Shadow "The White Legion" Gibson, Walter Brown, The Shadow Scrapbook. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979 March 24 Blue 30 min. The March of Time Welles as Leopold Stokowski March 27 Synd 30 min. The Shadow "The Hypnotized Audience" April 3 Synd 30 min. The Shadow "Death from the Deep" April 10 Synd 30 min. The Shadow "The Firebug" April 17 Synd 30 min. The Shadow "The Blind Beggar Dies" April 24 Synd 30 min. The Shadow "Power of the Mind" May 1 Synd 30 min. The Shadow "The White God" May 8 Synd 30 min. The Shadow "Aboard the Steamship Amazon" May 15 Synd 30 min. The Shadow "Murders in Wax" May 22 Synd 30 min. The Shadow "The Message from the Hills" May 29 Synd 30 min. The Shadow "The Creeper" June 5 Synd 30 min. The Shadow "The Tenor with the Broken Voice" June 12 Synd 30 min. The Shadow "Murder On Approval" June 19 Synd 30 min. The Shadow "The Tomb of Terror" June 26 Synd 30 min. The Shadow "The Old People" July 3 Synd 30 min. The Shadow "The Voice of the Trumpet" July 10 Synd 30 min. The Shadow "He Died at Twelve" July 11 CBS 60 min. First Person Singular "Dracula" July 17 Synd 30 min. The Shadow "The Reincarnation of Michael" July 18 CBS 60 min. First Person Singular "Treasure Island" July 24 Synd 30 min. The Shadow "The Mark of the Bat" July 25 CBS 60 min. First Person Singular "A Tale of Two Cities" July 31 Synd 30 min. The Shadow "Revenge on the Shadow" August 1 CBS 60 min. First Person Singular "The Thirty-Nine Steps" August 7 Synd 30 min. The Shadow "The Mine Hunters" August 8 CBS 60 min. First Person Singular "I'm a Fool", "The Open Window", "My Little Boy" August 14 Synd 30 min. The Shadow "The Hospital Murders" August 15 CBS 60 min. First Person Singular "Abraham Lincoln" August 21 Synd 30 min. The Shadow "The Caverns of Death" August 22 CBS 60 min. First Person Singular "The Affairs of Anatol" August 28 Synd 30 min. The Shadow "Death Under the Chapel" August 29 CBS 60 min. First Person Singular "The Count of Monte Cristo" September 4 Synd 30 min. The Shadow "Black Buddha" September 5 CBS 60 min. First Person Singular "The Man Who Was Thursday" September 11 CBS 60 min. The Mercury Theatre on the Air "Julius Caesar" September 11 Synd 30 min. The Shadow "The Witch Drums of Salem" September 18 CBS 60 min. The Mercury Theatre on the Air "Jane Eyre" September 18 Synd 30 min. The Shadow "Professor X" September 25 CBS 60 min. The Mercury Theatre on the Air "Sherlock Holmes" October 2 CBS 60 min. The Mercury Theatre on the Air "Oliver Twist" October 9 CBS 60 min. The Mercury Theatre on the Air "Hell on Ice" October 16 CBS 60 min. The Mercury Theatre on the Air "Seventeen" October 23 CBS 60 min. The Mercury Theatre on the Air "Around the World in Eighty Days" October 30 CBS 60 min. The Mercury Theatre on the Air "The War of the Worlds" November 6 CBS 60 min. The Mercury Theatre on the Air "Heart of Darkness", "Life With Father" November 13 CBS 30 min. The Silver Theatre "Stars in Their Courses", Part 1 November 13 CBS 60 min. The Mercury Theatre on the Air "A Passenger to Bali" November 20 CBS 30 min. The Silver Theatre "Stars in Their Courses", Part 2 November 20 CBS 60 min. The Mercury Theatre on the Air "The Pickwick Papers" November 27 CBS 60 min. The Mercury Theatre on the Air "Clarence" December 4 CBS 60 min. The Mercury Theatre on the Air "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" December 9 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "Rebecca" Smith, Steven C., A Heart at Fire's Center: The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991 December 16 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "Call It a Day" December 23 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "A Christmas Carol" December 30 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "A Farewell to Arms"
1939 DateNetworkLengthSeriesDetailsSurviving recordingInvolvementActorDirectorProducerWriter January 6 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "Counsellor-at-Law" January 13 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "Mutiny on the Bounty" January 20 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "The Chicken Wagon Family" January 22 MutualCBSNBC 60 min. The March of Dimes January 27 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "I Lost My Girlish Laughter" February 3 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "Arrowsmith" February 10 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "The Green Goddess" February 17 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "Burlesque" February 24 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "State Fair" March 2 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "Royal Regiment" March 10 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "The Glass Key" March 17 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "Beau Geste" March 24 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "Twentieth Century" March 31 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "Show Boat" April 7 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "Les Misérables" April 14 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "The Patriot" April 21 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "Private Lives" April 28 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "Black Daniel" May 5 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "Wickford Point" May 12 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "Our Town" May 19 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "The Bad Man" May 26 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "American Cavalcade" June 2 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "Victoria Regina" June 4 CBS 30 min. Knickerbocker Playhouse "Business Before Pleasure" July 1 Mutual 60 min. The American Forum of the Air July 2 CBS 30 min. Knickerbocker Playhouse "Fleurette" September 10 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "Peter Ibbetson" September 17 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "Ah, Wilderness!" September 24 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "What Every Woman Knows" September 28 CBS 60 min. Columbia Workshop "The Fall of the City" October 1 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "The Count of Monte Cristo" October 8 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "Algiers" October 15 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "Escape" October 22 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "Liliom" October 29 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "The Magnificent Ambersons" November 5 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "The Hurricane" November 8 NBC 60 min. Town Hall Tonight November 12 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" November 19 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "The Garden of Allah" November 26 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "Dodsworth" December 3 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "Lost Horizon" December 10 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "Vanessa'" December 17 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "There's Always a Woman" December 24 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "A Christmas Carol" December 31 CBS 60 min. The Campbell Playhouse "Come and Get It"
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