The birthday block includes the hour-long Lux Radio Theatre, “Strangers on a Train” (December 2, 1951); Mystery in the Air, “The Lodger” (August 14, 1947); and The Academy Award Theatre, “Shadow of a Doubt” (September 11, 1946).
Host Greg Bell will begin the Hitchcock birthday block on these dates and times ~
Wednesday, August 9 –
11 am Pacific
2 pm Eastern
Thursday, August 10 –
11 pm
Friday, August 11 –
2 am Eastern
Sunday, August 13 –
7 pm Pacific
10 pm Eastern
Mystery in the Air, “The Lodger”, will air these dates and times ~
Wednesday, August 9 –
12 noon Pacific
3 pm Eastern
Friday, August 11 –
12 midnight
3 am Eastern
Sunday, August 13 –
8 pm Pacific
11 pm Eastern
SiriusXM airs Radio Classics over channel 148. Subscribers may also listen to the programs over the internet or 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.
Alfred Hitchcock was born on August 14, 1899. The accomplished director of mystery and suspense hired Peter Lorre for the part of Abbott, the gang leader, in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), and later brought him back to England for a supporting role in Secret Agent (1936). In the 1950s, Peter Lorre appeared in two episodes of Hitchcock’s weekly television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
Peter Lorre’s radio series Mystery in the Air replaced The Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Show for 13 weeks during the summer of 1947, beginning with “The Tell-Tale Heart” on July 3 and ending with “Crime and Punishment” on September 25, 1947.
In “The Lodger”, Peter Lorre co-stars with his regular Mystery in the Air cast, including Harry Morgan as “The Voice of Mystery”, Barbara Eiler, Eric Snowden, Raymond Lawrence, Rolfe Sedan, Conrad Binyon, and guest-star Agnes Moorehead, making her second appearance in the series; her first was “The Interruption” (July 24, 1947).
Set in Victorian London in the late 1880s, “The Lodger” features Peter Lorre as the mysterious Mr. Sleuth, who rents a room from a couple looking to make a little extra money in their home. His landlady (Moorehead) soon comes to suspect her Lodger might be the killer of young music hall girls.
In the pages of The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre, Stephen Youngkin discusses Peter’s work with Alfred Hitchcock, as well as his career on radio, beginning in Germany in the early 1930s.
A complete-to-date list of Peter’s radio appearances is available in the appendix of The Lost One.
The book is available through many brick-and-mortar bookshops, as well as these online merchants ~ Happy listening!
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