Bold Venture with Bogart and Bacall Digitally Restored (2025) - Old Time Radio Audiobook

Written by Old Time Radio
Read by Various, Celebrity Narrated
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Dramatization

Digitally restored over several years from every source that I could find, including Vinyl, Cassette and Digital. Each episode sounds very good/excellent beginning to end. Audio has been cleaned and the Volume normalized throughout so you can easily hear the dialogue and action scenes are not 10x louder.

Bold Venture was a transcribed syndication by Ziv Corporation. There were 78 thirty minute episodes produced for release with the premiere of 26 March 1951.

This was the first radio program staring Humphrey Bogart who resisted doing live radio shows because of the time involved. Since this series was transcribed he accepted the offer.

Humphrey Bogart plays the part of Slate Shannon hotel owner and owner of a boat called the “Bold Venture”. He was ready to rescue a friend in need or hunt down and enemy. The setting for the series is Havana, Cuba.

Other regular cast members include his wife Lauren Bacall, who plays the part of Sailor Duval, and Jester Hairson who plays the part of King Moses, a calypso singer.

Music was supplied by David Rose and his Orchestra and scripts were written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. Each script was a pure Bogie and Baby script style.

Of the 78 episodes produced, Otter lists 57 that are in circulation today. So sit back, relax, and enjoy some well produced radio from the 50’s.

I have also included the Best of Bogart & Bacall OTR Collection with Episodes from other series in which appeared Bogart, Bacall or both, each fully restored/remastered:

Academy Award Theatre 46-07-03 The Maltese Falcon.mp3
Bogart Theatre Present 49-08-17 Dead Man.mp3
LUX Radio Theatre 45-04-30 Moontide {Humphrey Bogart, Virginia Bruce}.mp3
LUX Radio Theatre 46-10-14 To Have and Have Not {Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall}.mp3
LUX Radio Theatre 49-04-18 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre {Humphrey Bogart}.mp3
LUX Radio Theatre 52-12-15 The African Queen {Humphrey Bogart, Greer Garson}.mp3
Screen Guild Theatre 40-01-07 Petrified Forest (Humphrey Bogart, Tyrone Power, Joan Bennett).mp3
Screen Guild Theatre 41-01-26 If She Could Only Cook (Humphrey Bogart, Alice Faye).mp3
Screen Guild Theatre 41-11-02 The Amazing Dr Clitterhouse (Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart).mp3
Screen Guild Theatre 41-11-23 If You Could Only Cook (Humphrey Bogart, Adolphe Menjou).mp3
Screen Guild Theatre 43-01-25 Across The Pacific (Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sidney Greenstreet).mp3
Screen Guild Theatre 43-04-26 Casablanca (Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman).mp3
Screen Guild Theatre 43-09-20 The Maltese Falcon (Humphrey Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet).mp3
Screen Guild Theatre 44-04-17 High Sierra (Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino).mp3
Screen Guild Theatre 45-09-17 The Valiant (Humphrey Bogart, Dorothy McGuire).mp3
Suspense 45-03-08 Love’s Lovely Counterfeit (Humphrey Bogart).mp3
Suspense 45-03-08 Love’s Lovely Counterfeit (Humphrey Bogart) AFRS.mp3
Theater Of Romance 45-09-11 Conflict (Humphrey Bogart).mp3
Theater Of Romance 45-12-18 One Way Passage (Humphrey Bogart, Joan Bennett).mp3