Favorite Story

Gulliver's Travels

English · Dramatic Readings, Fantasy, Satire

Favorite Story brings classic literature to radio in dramatic adaptations hosted by Ronald Colman. Each broadcast introduces a story chosen from the host’s favorites, then uses actors, dialogue, music, and sound effects to turn the written work into an engaging performance.

The program draws on a wide range of well-known fiction, presenting its stories in a concise radio format. This installment adapts Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, the imaginative tale of a traveler whose voyages lead him into strange lands and encounters that satirize human nature and society.

Colman’s polished introductions and the cast’s theatrical performances give the series an inviting, literary character. It offers a way to experience familiar works through vivid spoken storytelling, with the atmosphere and immediacy of a classic radio drama.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.