There is simply no end to the wonders of the web. One I recently discovered is a web site which hosts many of the radio plays Orson Welles created before Hollywood scooped him up. These are brilliant and extremely entertaining productions in which Welles experimented with the aural effects he later applied to his movie soundtracks.
Though they have a patina of "artiness", and are often adaptations of famous works of literature, the shows are aimed at a popular audience -- they blend the ambitions of Welles' innovative stage productions with the lessons he learned as an actor on commercial radio. The result is popular art of a very high order.
On the site you can download many of the featured shows in MP3 format and listen to all of them in streaming audio. Check it out here:
The Mercury Theater On the Air
. . . and thank Kim Scarborough, who created the online archive, for a signal service to our culture.