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The Third Woman

The Lives of Harry Lime · December 7, 1951 · 29 min · 4,250 words

The transcript of “The Third Woman”, an episode of The Lives of Harry Lime first broadcast December 7, 1951. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Orson Welles on the Air plays The Lives of Harry Lime free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Austin Wells as the third man. Bives of Harry Lime. The fabulous stories of the immortal character originally created in the motion picture The Third Man with Zoota Music by Anton Karras. That was the shot that killed Harry Lime.

He died in a sewer beneath Vienna. As those of you who saw the movie The Third Man, he asked that was the end of Harry Lime. It was not the beginning. Time had many lives.

I can recount all of them. Very simple. My name is Harry Mein. Yes, yes. Come on, speaker. Corporal Lime is here, sir. Oh, he is, is he?

Well, you can tell Corporal Lime I want to see him. Right now! This is funny, but all during my military career, I've never seen to be able to force myself to be very fond of the brass.

You've got to have an army, you've got to have the brass, I suppose, but... I don't honestly see why. Or Orson Wells as Harry Lime, the third man in today's story, The Third Woman. You know something, Corporal Lime? No, sir. If we could prove half of this stuff in this file,

you'd be celebrating your 100th birthday in a military prison. Yes, sir. I don't say so, sir. Shut up and listen. You reported the address on this slip of paper. It's a tailor on Savile Road. The tailor has his instructions.

He's to make your three suits, including the full soup and fish, and the whole office to be ready in 48 hours. Isn't that awful? Yes, sir. Wait a minute, it gets worse. You go to the Savoy Hotel.

You know where that is? Yes, sir. A room is reserved there for you. Your register is a civilian. For purposes of cutting red tape, you're going to be a civilian. But here are your papers.

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