Radio review - Lux - "The Story of Alexander Graham Bell" (1945) ***1/2

The victory in Europe was celebrated by Lux with a recreation of the famous biopic. Don Ameche reprises his best known role (from his 30s heyday anyway) as the inventor of the telephone. In the chat at the end Ameche admits to being a little sick of people constantly kidding about inventing the phone (guest host Mitchell Leisen points out that the army called phones "Ameches"). He is very engaging as the young inventor constantly pushing the technological envelope with June Duprez stepping in as his deaf wife. Some charming visual bits I remembered form the film inevitably don't make it but it's done with a lot of intelligence and charm. Ameche talks at the end as being about the star in a film where he played the inventor of the silencer.