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I’ve been reading Leslie Charteris when I can locate any of his works from the local libraries (much of the Saintly canon is OOP). A collection of recordings from the radio series starring Vincent Price turned up in the library’s digital catalog, but it proved useless because the distributor formatted the files in Windows Media. Even though the radio series has been in the public domain for some time, these episodes were crippled with Microsoft DRM. (The library takes pains to exclude Mac OS X users from their “free” downloads.)
Fortunately, someone kindly provided everything extant at archive.org. Some of the episodes appear to be off-air recordings; some are taken from transcription discs. As a historical slice they’re fascinating. The connection to the literary Simon Templar may be occasionally tenuous, but the show is an all-too-welcome distraction to a busy morning…
