A Radio Almanac variety show featuring Charles Laughton, combining topical jokes, comic biographical material, music, sponsor segments and dramatic performance. Much of the broadcast plays with Laughton's public image through deliberately exaggerated comedy. The later portion turns to Shakespeare, including an extended scene from Julius Caesar centered on the bitter quarrel between Brutus and Cassius.
This The Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcast aired on March 15, 1944. It is listed as episode 8 in the archive.
Only 18 objects belong to Mercury Theatre on the Air proper; later items are separately profiled by historical program.
Listeners can expect drama, anthology drama in format, and dramatic in tone.
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