Lives of Harry Lime
BBC Light Programme
BBC Light Programme · 1951–1952
150 EpisodesWeeklyPGSince 1951
The run
- Network
- BBC Light Programme
- Years active
- 1951–1952
- Surviving broadcasts
- 150
- Genre
- suspense
The Lives of Harry Lime was a British radio series that was produced in London by Harry Alan Towers. Called The Adventures of Harry Lime when first broadcast in Great Britain, the program featured Orson Welles as the title character, reprising his role from the 1949 cult movie, The Third Man . The radio series was set before that classic film, and depicted Harry Lime's many misadventures as a con-artist. Most of the programs opened with haunting "The Third Man Theme" by Anton Karas being played, followed by a gunshot. Welles would then intone "That was the shot that killed Harry Lime. He died in a sewer…
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
10 dated broadcasts across 2 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1951, in original transmission order.
- 1. Too Many Crooks · 3 Aug 1951
- 2. Lives of Harry Lime 1951-08-24 (4) Ticket to Tangier · 24 Aug 1951
- 3. Work of Art · 28 Sep 1951
- 01
Too Many Crooks
3 Aug 1951 · 27 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
Lives of Harry Lime 1951-08-24 (4) Ticket to Tangier
24 Aug 1951 · 27 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 24 August 1951. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
Work of Art
28 Sep 1951 · 27 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
Lives of Harry Lime 1951-10-19 (12) Blue Bride
19 Oct 1951 · 27 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 19 October 1951. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
Horse Play
23 Nov 1951 · 28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
Lives of Harry Lime 1951-12-14 (20) An Old Moorish Custom
14 Dec 1951 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 14 December 1951. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
Double Double Cross
18 Jan 1952 · 27 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
Lives of Harry Lime 1952-02-08 (28) Earl on Troubled Waters
8 Feb 1952 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 8 February 1952. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Same seasons
suspense on the air then
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What it became
The anthology of dread
A voice, a creaking door, and a self-contained story designed to frighten you in half an hour. Suspense and Lights Out built the grammar every horror anthology still uses.
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