Sherlock Holmes - September 25, 1938 - 00:56:00 - 12.8 MB

On September 25, 1938, Orson Welles and The Mercury Theater on the Air
present Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The radio script was
written by Welles, adapted from the play by William Gillette. Cast: Orson
Welles (Sherlock Holmes), Ray Collins (Dr. Watson), Mary Taylor (Alice
Faulkner), Brenda Forbes (Madge Larrabee), Edgar Barrier (James Larrabee),
Morgan Farley (Inspector Forman), Richard Wilson (Jim Craigin), Eustace
Wyatt (Professor Moriarty), Frank Gallop (Announcer.) Music by Bernard
Herrmann.

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The entire script for this broadcast can be read here:
http://www.genericradio.com/show.php?id=8VCGXSKAOS

Welles scripted and starred in a radio production of Sherlock Holmes as
a boy at Todd School in Illinois. (The Medium and the Magician by Paul
Heyer: Orson Welles, the Radio Years, 1934-1952. Rowman & Littlefield,
2005.)

A later BBC radio adaptation of twelve Sherlock Holmes stories paired Sir
John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson as Holmes and Watson with Orson Welles
as Moriarty in "The Final Problem". The series aired in 1954 (and was
broadcast in the U.S. on NBC in 1955 along with four additional half-hour
episodes.) This series is currently available on CD from Amazon.