Radio review – MT#3 - “Tale of Two Cities” (1938) ***

Orson Welles is excellent as Sidney Carton – all booming voice, wasted talent and dissolution. He would have made a wonderful film lead in this role, provided he wasn’t too fat at the time. (You know what, it would have even worked with a fat Welles). A good solid adaptation with the best performances by the Defarges; Charles Darney is a little dull but he was in the book.