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Lives of Harry Lime
- Heard
- 1951–1952
- Episodes
- 54
THE LIVES OF HARRY LIME
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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 beneath Vienna, as those of you know who saw the movie The Third Man. Yes, that was the end of Hary Lime. But it was not the beginning. Harry Lime had many lives... and I can recount all of them. How do I know? Very simple. Because my name is Harry Lime." The program was the first independently-produced series that the BBC had ever broadcasted, though it did only acquire sixteen of the series' fifty two episodes. It inspired a Pocket Book of short stories based on scripts, including several reported written by Orson Welles himself. The several episodes "Man of Mystery," "Murder on the Rivera" and "Greek Meets Creek" feature plot elements that Welles later expanded upon in the 1955 motion picture Mr. Arkadin. From the Old Time Radio Researchers Group. See "Notes" Section below for more information on the OTRR.
Episodes, in broadcast order
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The archive items its episodes are played from, best first, with each one’s rights as its archive states them. An episode two sets both hold is played from the first.
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Lives of Harry Lime - Single Episodes
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