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Elegant trouble, paid in cash.
The Lives of Harry Lime Daily follows Harry Lyme through confidence games where romance, money, and danger keep changing hands. Its pleasures are sharp narration, needling banter, and plots that reveal the trick just after the mark has stepped into it.
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The Lives of Harry Lime Daily is a serialized mystery-adventure audio drama centered on Harry Lyme, a man whose survival instinct is matched only by his appetite for opportunity. The show moves like a confidence game. It begins with a premise, lets the social niceties do their work, and then reveals which smile had a price on it. In one story, a boxing wager around Young Pancho becomes a lesson in how to make a mark impatient. In another, a profitable encounter with Wall Street investors sends Harry toward an ocean trip and away from New York detectives. Jewels appear. So do side bets, oil towns, suspicious officials, and women who complicate business by turning pleasure into leverage. The drama is theatrical without being slow. Short bursts of dialogue do the cutting, while the narration stretches out to explain the angle, the bait, and the small moral excuse Harry offers himself afterward. Orson Welles is presented as The Third Man, and Anton Karras is credited for the zither music, giving the episodes a distinctive old-radio texture. The world is broad but compact: Vienna sewers, Cuba, Scotland Yard files, Bekarata in Saudi Arabia, and a dozen rooms where someone is about to underestimate the wrong man. Money is nearly always nearby. So is danger. The show is especially good at making criminal cleverness feel elegant for a moment, then letting the bill come due in some dry, sideways fashion. Harry rarely sounds innocent, but he often sounds entertained. That is the central appeal. The Lives of Harry Lime Daily suits listeners who enjoy vintage-feeling audio drama where every romance may be a setup, every bargain may be rigged, and every escape has already been half-planned before anyone else spots the trap.
Made for: The show suits listeners who like classic mystery-adventure audio drama, urbane criminal narrators, and compact stories about confidence games, escapes, and reversals. It is best for an audience comfortable with period melodrama and morally slippery protagonists.
What sets it apart: Its edge comes from Harry Lyme's amused, first-person criminal logic: the plot is not only what happens, but how the trick is sized, baited, and justified. The old-radio texture and Third Man connection give the schemes a polished theatrical charge.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Orson Welles turns Harry Lime's globe-crossing schemes into sly first-person crime stories where rescue, betrayal, and profit remain dangerously close.
Orson Welles gives Harry Lime the microphone and lets a practiced swindler narrate his own legend. The Lives of Harry Lime Daily follows the character through international confidence games, thefts, wagers, and narrow escapes, with Lime forever calculating how much trouble can…
A bank job becomes a trapdoor trick, and Harry still has a cigar for you afterward.
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A boxing-night swindle with enough polish to make the con feel inevitable.
This outing works because Harry Lime treats the boxing match like a room to be worked, not just a bout to be watched. He sets the wager, keeps Pierce leaning forward, and folds Jenny and Pancho into the scheme until the whole thing feels less like a gamble than a result already…
A Budapest caper with dry wit, careful reveal, and a neat ending.
This Harry Lime story keeps the Budapest bank robbery moving at a tidy clip, with a dry comic touch that suits Harry's practiced confidence. The scene work with Fodor, Lulu, and the bank officer gives the caper its bite, and the late-arriving details make the plan feel sharper…
A treasure legend, a 24-hour deadline, and a poisoned wine reveal near Algiers.
A treasure legend near Algiers sends Harry Lime into a 24-hour scramble after research in the government library points to loot hidden somewhere between Algiers and Bougie.
Harry Lime turns a charity pitch into a polished con, and the whole thing stays just courteous enough to be dangerous.
Harry Lime goes to India with a charity pitch that sounds proper at first, then slowly shows its hand. The path through the Taj Mahal, Lady Edith Bannon Murdoch, and the orphan appeal at Nanda Devi keeps the tone polished while the request for 5,000 pounds does the real work in…
A boat-side customs check turns into a polished confidence game.
Harry Lime spends this installment on a boat-side customs check with Robinson and the little Earl of Lincaster nearby, and the scene stays sure of itself even as the pressure rises.
Harry Lime's Haitian hustle becomes a slick scramble for cash and Henri Christophe's sacred scepter.
The piece finds Harry Lime in Haiti after a small revolution he helped stir falls apart and leaves him stuck with a bag of U.S. cash. From there, the story turns the island into a place of bargains, rituals, and Henri Christophe's sacred scepter, while Lime tells it all like a…
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A recurring cast plays full Pathfinder 2E, Shadowdark, and Pendragon campaigns session by session.
A Dungeon World actual-play campaign following three comedians battling villain Callum Blackhammer.
Harry Lyme treats a fight like a con.
Harry Lime joins the circus as announced by Sir Evan Lawford at midnight with Slither music by Anton Kera.
This episode follows the character Harry Lime from The Third Man as he recounts his experiences with various criminal activities and his attempt to go straight, told in a narrative style.
Harry Lime recounts a rogue's holiday after outwitting Wall Street investors for a $55,000 profit, following his supposed death in Vienna.
This episode features Orson Welles narrating as Harry Lime, exploring the backstory and adventures of the immortal character from the film The Third Man, including a tale about a stolen diamond.
Harry Lime reflects on the complications of balancing business and pleasure with women, setting up a new adventure.
A daily audio drama reviving the adventures of Harry Lime from the classic film The Third Man.
A daily audio drama reviving the classic adventures of Harry Lime, preceded by a credit union advertisement.
A daily audio drama reviving the adventures of Harry Lime from the classic film The Third Man.
A daily dramatized adventure series following the cunning exploits of Harry Lime, based on the classic film The Third Man.
Harry Lime turns a Budapest bank job into a lesson in timing and nerve.
Harry Lime is chasing a legend in Algiers.
Harry Lyme opens with a joke.
Harry Lime is already halfway into trouble.
A dramatized episode of The Lives of Harry Lime featuring a gold-trading sponsorship and the iconic character's introduction.
This episode of The Lives of Harry Lime Daily presents a classic audio drama featuring Orson Welles as Harry Lime, introducing a tale involving murder and intrigue.
Harry Lime recounts a caper where he outwitted Wall Street investors, leading to a rogue's holiday.
A daily audio drama following the cunning adventures of Harry Lime, based on the classic old time radio series.
A daily audio drama reviving the classic adventures of Harry Lime from The Third Man.
A daily audio drama reviving the classic adventures of Harry Lime, based on the original radio series.
Harry Lime encounters a fortune teller in Rimini who recognizes him from a lime rind.
Orson Welles introduces the character Harry Lime and sets up the premise of the series, recounting his many lives after his supposed death.
A daily audio drama reviving the classic adventures of Harry Lime from the old time radio series.
A daily audio drama reviving the classic adventures of Harry Lime from The Third Man.
A daily audio drama reviving the classic adventures of Harry Lime from the old time radio series.
A daily audio drama reviving the adventures of Harry Lime from the classic film The Third Man.
A daily audio drama reviving the classic adventures of Harry Lime, preceded by advertisements for jewelry and hair products.
Orson Welles narrates the backstory of Harry Lime, introducing a tale about a farthing worth 20,000 pounds.
A daily audio drama reviving the adventures of Harry Lime from the classic film The Third Man.
This episode explores the backstory of Harry Lime, a character from the film The Third Man, detailing his various lives and connections to Nazi fugitives in Buenos Aires after World War II.
This episode introduces the character Harry Lime from The Third Man, contrasting a theatrical depiction of a revolution with the narrator's real-life experience in one.
Harry Lime opens by linking this story to The Third Man, then says his history is a series of "cosmic yo-yo" swings between money and trouble.
The narrator recounts meeting two Brazilian women in Paris and posing as an art dealer to sell them masterpieces from antique shops.
Orson Welles narrates a love story featuring his character Harry Lime from The Third Man, involving Arab chieftains, international gangsters, and buried treasure.