The Mercury Theatre on the Air (first known as First Person Singular) is a radio series of live radio dramas created by Orson Welles. The weekly hour-long show presented classic literary works performed by Welles’s celebrated Mercury Theatre repertory company with music composed or arranged by Bernard Herrmann.The series began July 11 1938 as a sustaining program on the CBS Radio network airing Mondays at 9 p.m. ET.
Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Paul Stewart (actor), Everett Sloane, Martin Gabel, Ray Collins (actor), Karl Swenson, Elliott Reid, George Coulouris, Agnes Moorehead, Arlene Francis, Edgar Barrier, William Alland
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