Episode 77, June 22, 2024 - Orson Welles: This Is My Best

In this episode of Airchecks we will be featuring a short lived series of Orson Welles: This Is My Best:45-03-13 Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad adaptationA trip up an African river...into the heart of darkness. An excellent use of radio.45-03-20 Miss Dilly Says NoAdaptation of Theodore Pratt's "Miss Dilly Says No"Miss Dilly writes a best-selling book. Hollywood is most interested, but Miss Dilly isn't.45-03-27 Snow White and the Seven DwarfsWalt Disney's 1937 film adapted by Robert TallmanBeware of witches bearing apples. Orson mentions that Jeanette Nolan and John McIntire are retiring from radio after tonight to raise a family. 45-04-03 Diamond as Big as the RitzAdaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1922 novella "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz.” A very strange love story involving the wealthy Mr. Washington and his diamond that was indeed, "as big as the Ritz."45-04-10 The Master of Ballantrae (Agnes Moorehead) Adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1899 novel "The Master of Ballantrae"Set in 1745 in Scotland during the Jacobite rising this is a dark and tragic story of two brothers, Scottish noblemen, whose family is torn apart.45-04-17 I Will Not Go Back (special broadcast honoring FDR)Adaptation of Milton Geiger's poem "I Will Not Go Back"A program dedicated to "an American president who has fallen in battle." The writing is highly dramatic, but the imagery is hard to follow. 45-04-24 Anything Can HappenLighthearted drama adapted from George and Helen Papashvily's autobiographical best-seller recounting George's adventures as a recent immigrant from Soviet Georgia. 45-05-29 Babes In The Woods (Jack Benny)A Hollywood playwright and a lady cab driver become involved with an unwanted little girl in the big city. The last show of the season.