Old-time radio theatre · every episode, around the clock
No sign-up · one tap. It plays right here, around the clock.
Standalone channel One series, every episode in the order it first aired. Part of Opening Night, where all the series play mixed.
5 episodes, in the order they first aired. Each plays on to the next. Subscribe in any podcast app with the feed.
148 more episodes are waiting: Potato Plus members play them all now
Orson Welles on the radio, around the clock: The Mercury Theatre on the Air, The Campbell Playhouse, The Lives of Harry Lime, his turns as The Shadow and on Suspense, in the order they first aired. A Stupid Potato channel.
Orson Welles on the Air is the old-time radio series first heard 1937–1952. Every episode we have, 174 of them, plays here in the order it first aired.
The these recordings here come from the Old Time Radio Researchers' Harey Lime Singles set (52 episodes), hosted by the Internet Archive. Our thanks to the Old Time Radio Researchers, the volunteers who found, dated and assembled the set, and to the Archive and the collectors whose uploads it rests on. Also from the Internet Archive item otr_campbellplayhouse (39), the Internet Archive item RkoOrsonWelles-TheShadow-RadioRecodings (31), the Internet Archive item OrsonWelles-MercuryTheater-1938Recordings (21). The sound is our remaster of those files (rumble, hiss and hum cleaned out, levelled to steady broadcast loudness); the recordings themselves are theirs. About our sources.
Every Orson Welles on the Air episode: the full list, with air dates and stories
Spotted a wrong date, title or name? Report a mistake · Missing a series? Request a show · Suggest a note
Orson Welles on the radio, around the clock: The Mercury Theatre on the Air, The Campbell Playhouse, The Lives of Harry Lime, his turns as The Shadow and on Suspense, in the order they first aired. A Stupid Potato channel.
Yes. Orson Welles on the Air is free to listen to, live around the clock and as a podcast: no sign-up, no app and no subscription. Potato Plus is optional and never required.
No. It is an internet radio channel, live 24 hours a day: press Listen live, no sign-up and no app needed.
No modern ads, and we promise none until Valentine's Day 2027 (February 14). Nothing breaks into the show to sell you something you never asked for. Any commercials you hear are the original sponsor spots that aired with the broadcast.
Press Listen live on https://stupidpotato.com/orson-welles/ , or open the stream address https://stupidpotato.com/orson-welles/live in any audio player (VLC, a smart speaker app, a car's web player). New episodes come out as a podcast: https://stupidpotato.com/orson-welles/feed.xml in any podcast app.
Orson Welles on the Air is a Stupid Potato channel (https://stupidpotato.com/), made by Stupid Potato Studios and powered by MonsterCast. The other channels and the Stupid Potato cartoons are at https://stupidpotato.com/.
Stupid Potato
Join Potato Plus