Classic Radio for August 24, 2024 - Ticket to Tangiers, Double Play, and a Failure

2 hours of Crime First a look at the events of the dayThen The Lives of Harry Lime starring Orson Welles, originally broadcast August 24, 1951, 73 years ago, A Ticket to Tangiers. Down on his luck in Paris, Harry finds an opportunity in Morocco from a classified ad in a newspaper. We follow that with The FBI in Peace And War, originally broadcast August 24, 1955, 69 years ago, Double Play.   A con-game by a gang is led by a crook who looks exactly like a major league baseball star. Then Crime and Peter Chambers starring Dane Clark, originally broadcast August 24, 1954, 70 years ago, Winston Carr. The wealthy Winston Carr (a Sydney Greenstreet clone) hires Chambers to deliver an envelope. This task is valued at $200, and is worth every cent, as the recipient of the letter has been murdered!Next the CBS Radio Workshop, originally broadcast August 24, 1956, 68 years ago, The Billion Dollar Failure of Figger Fallup. A tale about the day the devil hired a pollster to find out how many folks would be entrusted to his care in the next twenty years. Finally, Claudia, originally broadcast August 24, 1948, 76 years ago.  Claudia at the ballgame. Thanks to Honeywell for supporting our podcast by using the Buy Me a Coffee function at http://classicradio.streamIf you like what we do here, visit our friend Jay at http://radio.macinmind.com for great old time radio shows 24 hours a day.