The Campbell Playhouse
The Green Goddess
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The Campbell Playhouse was Orson Welles’s radio drama series, presenting adaptations of novels, plays, and other stories. Welles often introduced the broadcasts and performed in them, joined by a company of skilled actors. This episode presents The Green Goddess, a story adapted for radio from William Archer’s play.
The program brings theatrical storytelling to the air, using dialogue, character performances, and sound to shape each production. Its repertoire ranges across suspense, adventure, and drama, with each broadcast offering a self-contained story drawn from a different work.
Welles’s confident introductions and the ensemble’s expressive performances give the series a polished, stage-minded character. Listeners can settle into a complete dramatic presentation, with the intimacy of radio bringing the voices and atmosphere directly to them.
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.