The week of April 8, 2024, Radio Classics host Greg Bell salutes the birthday of actor Harry Morgan, Peter Lorre’s co-host on Mystery in the Air.
The old-time radio shows channel will present a 2-hour block of programs featuring Harry Morgan, including Mystery in the Air, “The Horla” (August 21, 1947); Mystery in the Air, “The Queen of Spades” (September 11, 1947); This is Your FBI, “The Floating Stickup” (December 8, 1950), and Tales of the Texas Rangers, “Conspiracy” (April 15, 1951).
Harry Morgan’s birthday block will air these dates and times ~
Sunday, April 7
9 pm Pacific
Monday, April 8
12 midnight Eastern
Wednesday, April 10
5 pm Pacific
8 pm Eastern
Saturday, April 14
3 am Pacific
6 am Eastern
The full schedule is available on Greg Bell’s website.
Satellite radio provider SiriusXM airs Radio Classics over channel 148. Subscribers may also listen to the programs over the internet or through the SiriusXM app. Log-in with your User ID and password. Not a subscriber? A trial is also available for a nominal price through the SiriusXM radio website.
Born April 10, 1915, actor Harry Morgan appeared as “The Voice of Mystery” on Peter Lorre’s radio series Mystery in the Air, a replacement series for The Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Show in the summer of 1947.
Mystery in the Air presented tales of suspense “culled from the four corners of world literature”, adapted from such famous tales as Alexander Pushkin’s “The Queen of Spades” and Guy de Maupassant’s “The Horla”, as well as original radio dramas.
Morgan hosted all 13 episodes, beginning with “The Tell-Tale Heart” on July 3 and continuing to the final program on September 25, 1947 – “Crime and Punishment”, adapted from Peter’s 1935 Columbia Studios film.
In the image above, Morgan (in black suit) stands, looking over Hans Conried’s shoulder at his script, with Peter Lorre at the microphone.
In the pages of The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre (2005), Stephen D. Youngkin discusses Mystery in the Air, as well as Peter Lorre’s many other radio appearances. A complete-to-date list of Peter’s radio work is also available in the book’s appendix.
The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre may be purchased from many brick-and-mortar shops, as well as these online merchants ~
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