Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre on the Air: Seventeen (Part 2 of 6)

Description

This is an adaptation of the 1916 Booth Tarkington novel "Seventeen" which tells the story of a 17-year-old boy named William Sylvanus Baxter in the early 20th Century who falls head over heels in love with Lola, "a howling bell of eighteen." It's basically a satire of puppy love and the awkwardness of teenage boys in general. (Kind of like "The Inbetweeners" except with less cursing and no English people). As with all of his radio adaptations of novels, Orson Welles played the ...