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September 29, 2025 33 mins
This week from "The Willamette Radio Workshop" we present the timeless classic: "The Fall of the City", was written for radio by Archibald McLeish and first broadcast on the Columbia Workshop Radio Series, April 11, 1937. The cast featured 22 year-old Orson Welles, along with a young Burgess Meredith. McLeish wrote the play in verse, inspired by two historical events – the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany and the conquest of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan, without resistance, by Hernán Cortés in 1521. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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