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===Radio=== A radio adaptation of ''Night Must Fall'' was presented on ''[[Philip Morris Playhouse]]'' 24 October 1941.<ref>{{cite news|title="Playhouse" Star|newspaper=Harrisburg Telegraph |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2858171/harrisburg_telegraph/|agency=Harrisburg Telegraph|date=October 18, 1941|page=27|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|access-date = July 21, 2015}} {{Open access}}</ref> Starring [[Burgess Meredith]], [[Maureen O'Sullivan]] and [[Flora Robson]], the program has not survived in radio collections.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.digitaldeliftp.com/DigitalDeliToo/dd2jb-Philip-Morris-Playhouse.html |title=Philip Morris Playhouse |website=The Digital Deli Too |access-date=2015-08-01}}</ref> ''Night Must Fall'' was adapted for the 24 July 1944 broadcast of ''[[The Screen Guild Theater]]'', starring [[James Cagney]], [[Rosemary DeCamp]] and May Whitty.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=The+Lady+Esther+Screen+Guild+Theatre |title=Suspense |website=RadioGOLDINdex |publisher=J. David Goldin |access-date=2015-08-01}}</ref><ref name="Archive Screen Guild">{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/ScreenGuildTheater |title=Night Must Fall |website=[[The Screen Guild Theater]] |publisher=Internet Archive |access-date=2015-08-01}}</ref> ''Night Must Fall'' was adapted for the 12 April 1946 broadcast of [[NBC]]'s [[Mollé Mystery Theatre]] by Don Agger and starred Ian Martin as Dan, [[Virginia Field]] as Olivia, [[Ethel Browning (actress)|Ethel Browning]] as Mrs. Bramson, Thelma Jordan as Dora, Anthony Kemble Cooper as Hubert Laurie, and [[Neil Fitzgerald]] as Inspector Belsize. Robert Montgomery produced, hosted and starred in a CBS Radio adaptation of ''Night Must Fall'' on ''[[Suspense (radio program)|Suspense]]'' 27 March 1948. May Whitty, [[Heather Angel (actress)|Heather Angel]], [[Richard Ney]] and Matthew Boulton co-starred.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=Suspense |title=Suspense |website=RadioGOLDINdex |publisher=J. David Goldin |access-date=2015-08-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/SUSPENSE3 |title=Night Must Fall |website=[[Suspense (radio program)|Suspense]] |publisher=[[Internet Archive]] |access-date=2015-08-01}}</ref> Dame [[Sybil Thorndike]] took the part of Mrs. Bramson in a 1969 production for [[BBC Radio 4]], directed by Betty Davies and featuring the prolific Welsh radio writer [[William Ingram (writer)|William Ingram]] as Dan. In 1985 [[BBC Radio 4]] broadcast another production of the play, starring [[Hywel Bennett]] as Dan. The station re-aired the dramatisation in 1987, the year of Emlyn Williams's death.
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