The Diamond Lens by Favorite Story

Strange Tales (Old Time Radio)

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🗓️ 3 November 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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This week on Strange Tales, we'll hear an adaptation of Fitzjames O'Brien's story, The Diamond Lens. This episode of Favorite Story originally aired July 2, 1946. Listen to more from Favorite Story https://traffic.libsyn.com/forcedn/e55e1c7a-e213-4a20-8701-21862bdf1f8a/StrangeTales772.mp3 Download StrangeTales772 | Subscribe | Spotify | Support Strange Tales Relic Radio is funded solely by listener donations. If you would like to help support it, visit Donate.RelicRadio.com for [...]

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0:00.0	Strange Tales
0:02.0	RELES
0:03.0	Relicradio.
0:20.0	Relic Radio.com presents tales of the strange and bizarre, the weird and the wicked.
0:26.2	Stories not necessarily of the supernatural, but of the unnatural.
0:35.1	Join us now for Strange Tales, featuring radio drama at its most mysterious and unusual.
0:53.7	Welcome back to Strange Tales, weird stories from the Golden Age of Radio every Sunday at Relicradio.com.
1:00.8	Our story comes from favorite story this week, an NBC series that debuted in June of
1:05.9	1946 and aired until November of 1949. Produced over 100 episodes.
1:11.8	Our story today is The Diamond Lens.
1:14.3	Based on the story by Fitz James O'Brien,
1:17.1	this one aired July 2nd, 1946.
1:20.3	Music This is Ronald Coleman, inviting you to radio's most dramatic half-hour.
1:43.2	Favorite story. I'm going to be able to be. Did you ever hear a piece of music composed for 80 symphony musicians and poor airplane engines?
2:30.0	Well, there is such a symphony, and the man who startled the world with it is the same man who chose this week's favorite story.
2:37.0	He's one of the century's most brilliant modern composers, the famous bad boy of music, Mr. George Antio.
2:43.8	The story Mr. Antio picked as his favorite is one of the maddest fictions ever dreamed for the literary mind.
2:49.8	And when you've heard it, I think you'll agree.
2:52.1	It's a fantastic yarn about science and insanity.
2:56.2	Fitz-James O'Brien wrote it, and William Conrad is going to play the leading role.
3:00.7	For all of you who love the amazing and the bizarre, here's George Antiles' favorite story, The Diamond Lens.
3:07.2	Music Here's George Antile's favorite story, The Diamond Lens. The Diamond Lens. Oh, it sounds like a circus.
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