Strange Tales (Old Time Radio)
Jul 12, 2026 · 0 min · 10 segments
Strange Tales features Favorite Story this week. We’ll hear *Jamie Freel*, its story from March 11, 1947. Listen to more from Favorite Story…
[dramatic music]
This is Ronald Coleman inviting you to radio's most dramatic half hour, Favorite Story.
[dramatic music] We've been telling a variety of tales on this series, stories of love and mystery and imagination, and a comedy or two.
We thought it was high time we brought you an Irish tale, something from the great storehouse of Celtic legends, a yarn filled with leprechauns and love.
So we asked an authority, Academy Award winner Barry Fitzgerald of the Irish Abbey Theatre.
Mr. Fitzgerald chose as his favorite story an old folktale which has been handed down through generations, the story of a lad and a colleen and the little people.
We asked Mr. Fitzgerald exactly who the little people were.
"Fallen angels," he said, "who were not good enough to be saved nor bad enough to be lost, who took great pleasure in feasting and dancing, but above all, in the lilt of a Gaelic song.
And all the old, beautiful tunes of Ireland," it is said, "are merely the music of the little people caught up by those who have ears to hear." Barry Fitzgerald's favorite story is called Jamie Friel, and to play Jamie, we've recruited another veteran of Dublin's Abbey Theatre, the young RKO star Sean McClory.
So sit back, close your eyes.
We're off to a land of magic as we bring you Jamie Friel.
[gentle music]
[dramatic music]
This is Ronald Coleman inviting you to radio's most dramatic half hour, Favorite Story.
[dramatic music] We've been telling a variety of tales on this series, stories of love and mystery and imagination, and a comedy or two.
We thought it was high time we brought you an Irish tale, something from the great storehouse of Celtic legends, a yarn filled with leprechauns and love.
So we asked an authority, Academy Award winner Barry Fitzgerald of the Irish Abbey Theatre.
Mr. Fitzgerald chose as his favorite story an old folktale which has been handed down through generations, the story of a lad and a colleen and the little people.
We asked Mr. Fitzgerald exactly who the little people were.
"Fallen angels," he said, "who were not good enough to be saved nor bad enough to be lost, who took great pleasure in feasting and dancing, but above all, in the lilt of a Gaelic song.
And all the old, beautiful tunes of Ireland," it is said, "are merely the music of the little people caught up by those who have ears to hear." Barry Fitzgerald's favorite story is called Jamie Friel, and to play Jamie, we've recruited another veteran of Dublin's Abbey Theatre, the young RKO star Sean McClory.
So sit back, close your eyes.
We're off to a land of magic as we bring you Jamie Friel.
[gentle music]
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