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Welcome to Stars On Suspense, presenting legends of Hollywood in "radio's outstanding theater of thrills." For twenty years, Suspense presented some of the greatest mysteries and thrillers on radio - legendary plays like "Sorry, Wrong Number," "The Hitch-Hiker," and "The House in Cypress Canyon." During its long radio run, Suspense attracted some of the biggest names in Hollywood to its microphones to play the hunter and the hunted, heroes and villains, and victims and killers. 

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Episode 452 - Stars of “Citizen Kane”

May 22, 2026

Hailed by many as the greatest film ever made, Citizen Kane was the debut feature from Orson Welles and featured many of his colleagues from the Mercury Theatre productions of Broadway and radio. We’ll hear Mr. Welles and his co-stars in radio thrillers: Ray Collins in “Marry for Murder” (originally aired on CBS on September 9, 1943); Welles in “Lazarus Walks” (AFRS rebroadcast from October 19, 1943); Joseph Cotten in “You’ll Never See Me Again” (originally aired on CBS on September 14, 1944); George Coulouris in “The Long Shot” (AFRS rebroadcast from January 31, 1946); Agnes Moorehead in “The Evil of Adelaide Winters” (originally aired on CBS on September 10, 1951); and Everett Sloane in “Alibi” (AFRS rebroadcast from July 7, 1957).