The Room Without A Door by The World’s Best

Strange Tales (Old Time Radio)

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4.6 • 700 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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We’ll hear from a series called The World’s Best on this week's episode. From August 18, 1941, here’s The Room Without A Door, based on a story by Honore de Balzac. https://traffic.libsyn.com/forcedn/e55e1c7a-e213-4a20-8701-21862bdf1f8a/StrangeTales822.mp3 Download StrangeTales822 | 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 more information. [...]

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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.
1:05.9	Music Welcome back to Strange Tales, Weird Stories from the Golden Age of Radio every Sunday at Relicradio.com.
1:11.1	Our story comes from the world's best this week, a series I don't have a lot of information on.
1:13.5	Can't even find where I found this one.
1:18.0	But it's based on a story by Honor DeBalsack titled The Room Without a Door.
1:22.9	This was an NBC series. This episode aired August 18th, 1941. Music The world's best.
1:52.9	Stories of love and hatred, beauty and death, the world's best.
1:58.3	The works of the greatest authors in the history of literature.
2:01.6	Dickens, Dumont, and Voltaire, Joseph Conrad, Chekhov, and Dimopin.
2:07.1	All these authors and many, many others are represented on this program in radio adaptations by Ranald R. McDougall.
2:14.7	Enjoy the world's best.
2:32.4	Thank you. our McDougal. Enjoy the world's best. This evening we're repeating a play, which was the first presented in this series in May.
2:37.7	The story is called The Room Without a Door and is based upon La Grande Bretacee by Andre de Balzac,
2:44.9	great French writer of the 19th century.
2:47.7	La Grand Brathe is an old grey house a few miles outside the village of Vandoum.
2:53.0	When our story begins, the roof of this house has long since fallen in.
2:58.1	The balconies are covered with sparrows' nests.
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