This week two of the bests come together: one of the best radio adventure serials - Escape and one of the best crime fiction writers - Cornell Woolrich (right).

A brief look at both Woolrich and his story about a woman who mysteriously and completely vanishes.

Music under is by "Jazz at the Movies."

A look at a short run summer replacement for the Lux Radio Theater - Forecast. It was an eight week run by the Columbia Broadcasting System to provide varied genre of radio drama and gauge the listener interest. Several ultimately became full blown radio series.

This week, a look at the "suspense" entry of Forecast - Marie Belloc-Lowndes' "The Lodger" starring Herbert Marshall (right) and Edmund Gwenn and directed by Alfred Hitchcock in his only directorial appearance on dramatic radio.

In 1938 Warner Brothers released a film based on the play by Barre Lyndon and called "The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse." The film starred Edward G. Robinson and in a supporting role, Humphrey Bogart. The first two appearances of the story appeared on radio in 1941 and 1944. But in 1947, a longer slightly different version was broadcast over the radio program Studio One starring Paul Muni (right).

This week a look at that broadcast.

Music under commentary is by Chillerstadt called Seven Eleven from the Podshow Music Network.

Continuing a look at the genius of Orson Welles, I look at probably his most public role on radio as Lamont Cranston and The Shadow. Welles had good and bad elements in his portrayal but it was a defining creation. You can also hear a rare clip of one of the original Shadow voices.

Continuing my look at the radio career of Orson Welles, you'll hear another selection from the Mercury Theater on the Air. In this episode we look at Welles, the script writer/adapter in this exciting and tense drama about survival in the North Pole.  Hell on Ice is based on the book of the same name by Commander Edward Ellsberg (right).