Broadcast: 14th September 1951

Starring: Orson Welles

Added: Nov 15 2003

“Friends the story of my marriage, my first marriage and believe you me my last. It all began in the funny little city of Bacherata, there isn’t much to do there except get married principle local occupation of course is getting rich and that’s what brought me to Bacherata. It’s hidden away as you probably know in a remote corner of Saudi Arabia. Mines of Black gold, oil stock the landscape as far as you can see and huddled beneath these modern steel skeletons lies a city as old as the east. Curio dealers hawk their wares in the narrow winding streets, beggars doze in shadowed doorways, and robed Arabs mingle with Europeans in soiled whites and the city drowsy with all the indolence of Asia ideal place for a murder and a double cross in oil. Oil, to grease the skids of fortune for Harry Lime…”