The Black Museum
The Black Museum was a radio crime-drama program produced by Harry Alan Towers and broadcast on Mutual in the United States in 1952. The series dramatized crime stories associated with Scotland Yard museum artifacts and later aired in Europe on Radio Luxembourg.
The Black Museum is a radio crime-drama program produced by Harry Alan Towers, which was broadcast in the USA on the Mutual network in 1952. It was then broadcast in Europe in 1953 on Radio Luxembourg, a commercial radio station, and was not broadcast by the BBC until 1991.
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The Black Museum. Radio program.
Original schedule
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D
Dick Judge
Cast
LLouis V. Genco
Cast
TTony West
Cast
TTig Row
Director
Orson Welles
Host
SSidney Torch
Music
Orson Welles
Cast
S
Sidney Torch
Organist
H
HHarry Alan Towers
Producer
Harry Alan Towers / Towers of London
Producer
IIra Marion
Writer
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