Lorre Radio Series on SiriusXM

Peter Lorre fans with access to SiriusXM Radio can tune into the Radio Classics channel the week of January 13, 2020, and hear an episode of Peter’s 1947 summer series Mystery in the Air – “The Black Cat”, which originally aired over NBC on Thursday, September 18, 1947.

“The Black Cat” will air these dates and times ~

Monday, Jan. 13 –
11:30 am Pacific, 2:30 pm Eastern

Thursday, Jan. 16 –
1:30 am Pacific, 4:30 am Eastern

Sunday, Jan. 19 &ndash:
5:30 pm Pacific, 8:30 pm Eastern

Satellite radio provider SiriusXM airs Radio Classics over Channel 148. Subscribers may also listen to the programs over the internet. Log-in with your User ID and password. Not a subscriber? A free 30-day trial is also available through the SiriusXM radio website.

“The Black Cat” is based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe, a favorite author of Peter Lorre’s. Peter plays “Charles”, an alcoholic who accidentally kills his wife and hides her body behind a brick wall – unintentionally walling up her pet cat along with the body.

For 13 weeks during the summer of 1947, Mystery in the Air replaced The Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Show. The series 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 Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat”, as well as original radio dramas.

Peter Lorre began with “The Tell-Tale Heart” on July 3, 1947, and continued to the final program, “Crime and Punishment”, adapted from Peter’s 1935 Columbia Studios film, on Sept. 25, 1947.

“The Black Cat” was the next-to-last episode to air in the series.

A complete-to-date list of Peter’s radio work is available in the Appendix of The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre, written by Stephen D. Youngkin and published through University Press of Kentucky in 2005.

The Lost One may be purchased from Amazon U.S., Amazon Canada, and Amazon U.K, as well as other booksellers.

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