Every Sunday night, Vintage Classic Radio presents the Sunday Night Playhouse, where we bring to life timeless classics from the golden age of radio between the 1930s and the 1960s. Description: The Thirty-Nine Steps was a 1938 radio play, broadcast as part of Mercury Theatre on the Air, a CBS Radio series hosted by actor and director Orson Welles. The play was an adaptation of the 1915 novel of the same name by John Buchan and was first broadcast July 11, 1938. The play follows the story of Richard Hannay, an unsuspecting British gentleman who is falsely accused of murder and embarks on a continent-spanning adventure to clear his name. Along his journey, he discovers an international conspiracy, and romantic entanglements, that threaten his freedom and safety. Original release: August 1st, 1938 Home station: CBS Cast: Orson Welles as Richard Hannay Ray Collins as Professor Jordan Elmer Gantry as the Clerk Carlton KaDell as Sir Walter Bullivant Agnes Moorehead as Mrs. Jordan Edgar Barrier as Mr. Memory.

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