SiriusXM Hitchcock Birthday Includes Lorre

During the week of August 10, 2026, Radio Classics channel host Greg Bell celebrates the birthday of British director Alfred Hitchcock with a two-hour block of old-time radio adaptations of two of his films and an episode of Peter Lorre’s 1947 summer series Mystery in the Air, airing over the satellite radio service SiriusXM.

The birthday tribute 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).

Early in his career, Alfred Hitchcock directed the silent thriller The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927), based on the 1913 novel The Lodger, written by Marie Belloc Lowndes. In 1947, Lowndes’ novel was adapted for an episode of Lorre’s radio series Mystery in the Air.

The Hitchcock birthday block will air these dates and times.

Tuesday, August 11 ~
3 am Pacific
6 am Eastern

Thursday, August 13 ~
7 pm Pacific
10 pm Eastern

Saturday, August 15 ~
11 am Pacific
2 pm Eastern

The full schedule for the week of Monday, August 10, to Sunday, August 16, 2026, is available on Greg Bell's website.

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.

Peter Lorre’s association with the British director, born on August 14, 1899, began in the early 1930s with roles in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) and Secret Agent (1936), and continued into the 1950s with appearances in two episodes of Hitchcock’s weekly television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

Happy listening!