The Hello radio fans and welcome to a bonus episode of down these mean streets

coming you in the middle of the week with a birthday salute to the big screen's

undisputed king of suspense, the legendary Alfred Hitchcock.

Mr. Hitchcock really needs no introduction.

Whether you know him from his

film-of-ceremonies for Alfred Hitchcock presents, or from his filmography of classic thrillers.

Alfred Hitchcock is one of the most celebrated filmmakers of all time.

After all, he's the man who gave us notorious, strangers on a train,

north by northwest to catch a thief, rear window, psycho, vertigo,

and so many more films that play as well today as they did decades ago.

Like his contemporaries, Hitchcock saw several of his films adapted for radio in the 1940s and 1950s. During the golden age of radio,

several programs brought big screen hits to listeners right in their homes. The most famous of these shows may be the Lux Radio Theater,

but movie adaptations could also be heard on Screen Directors Playhouse,

The Screen Guild Theater, and Academy Award.

That last show specialized in presenting movies that had been nominated for or won, you

guessed it, an Academy Award.

And it's that series that gives us our Hitchcock tribute for the day.

One more old-time radio connection for Alfred Hitchcock.

In 1940, he directed an adaptation of his film The Lodger for a CBS series called Forecast.

That program proved to be the audition for Radio's Outstanding Theater of Thrills, Suspense.

For our Hitchcock birthday tribute, I've picked a version of Shadow of a Doubt, the

1943 film that Hitchcock considered his personal favorite

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