The Black Museum
Four Small Bottles
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The Black Museum is a crime anthology introduced by Orson Welles as a tour through Scotland Yard’s collection of objects connected to real criminal cases. Each object serves as the starting point for a dramatized story of crime and its consequences.
Welles’s narration frames the episode, lending the proceedings the feel of a guided visit to a shadowy archive. The stories unfold through radio drama, with dialogue and sound effects bringing the people and events associated with the featured object to life.
In “Four Small Bottles,” the title points to the object at the center of this installment. The series combines a documentary-style premise with suspenseful crime storytelling, creating an atmospheric listen shaped by Welles’s distinctive voice and the unsettling idea that ordinary objects can carry traces of extraordinary events.
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.