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Favorite Story

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Sep 11, 2026

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207:58
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Ronald ColmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
208:00
This is Ronald Colman inviting you to radio's most dramatic half hour, Favorite Story.
Ronald ColmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
208:05
[dramatic music] The man who picked this week's favorite story is someone you must have seen many times.
Ronald ColmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
209:02
He has the rather engaging habit of casting himself as a bit player in every motion picture he directs.
Ronald ColmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
209:08
So you've caught glimpses of him, that paunchy gentleman with the bright little eyes who appears on the screen for a few fleeting seconds.
Ronald ColmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
209:20
People here in Hollywood call him Hitch.
Ronald ColmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
209:23
He's the master of suspense thrillers, Mr. Alfred Hitchcock.
Ronald ColmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
209:27
We were chatting with him recently in the commissary at David O. Selznick Studios, and he suggested a favorite story for this series, one that's right in the Hitchcock tradition, Robert Louis Stevenson's hair-raising adventure of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Ronald ColmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
210:02
Thank you.
Ronald ColmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
210:37
The man who picked this week's favorite story is someone you must have seen many times.
Ronald ColmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
210:43
He has the rather engaging habit of casting himself as a bit player in every motion picture he directs.
Ronald ColmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
210:49
So you've caught glimpses of him, that paunchy gentleman with the bright little eyes who appears on the screen for a few fleeting seconds.
Ronald ColmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
211:01
People here in Hollywood call him Hitch.
Ronald ColmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
211:04
He's the master of suspense thrillers, Mr. Alfred Hitchcock.
Ronald ColmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
211:08
We were chatting with him recently in the commissary at David O. Selznick Studios, and he suggested a favorite story for this series.
Ronald ColmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
211:16
One that's right in the Hitchcock tradition.

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