Citizen Kane ........ "one of the greatest films yet made" .... and one to listen to on the wireless

Citizen Kane, The Third Man and the Magnificent Ambersons rank as three of my most favourite films, all of which were made by Orson Wells.

Kane addressing a campaign meeting

And so this Radio 4 programe on Citizen Kane is a must to listen to.

"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Orson Welles' film, released in 1941, which is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, films yet made. Welles plays the lead role of Charles Foster Kane, a newspaper magnate, and Welles directed, produced and co-wrote this story of loneliness at the heart of a megalomaniac. 

Jospeh Cotten, Orson Wells, and Everett Sloane

The plot was partly inspired by the life of William Randolph Hearst, who then used the power of his own newspapers to try to suppress the film’s release. 

It was to take some years before Citizen Kane reached a fuller audience and, from that point, become so celebrated.

With, Stella Bruzzi, Professor of Film and Dean of Arts and Humanities at University College London, Ian Christie, Professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck, University of London, and John David Rhodes, Professor of Film Studies and Visual Culture at the University of Cambridge

Producer: Simon Tillotson"

Location, on the wireless

Picture; Promotional still for the 1941 film, Citizen Kane, January 1941, International Photographer, Volume XII, Number 12, January 1941 (front cover), RKO Radio Pictures, still photographer Alexander Kahle and Promotional still for the 1941 film, Citizen Kane, CK-115, January 1941,International Photographer, Volume XII, Number 12, January 1941, RKO Radio Pictures, still photographer Alexander Kahle

*Citzen Kane, In Our Time, Radio 4, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001g37l