A play reading of Orson Welles’ Show Radio Play - The Hitch‑Hiker by Lucille Fletcher
To be produced at an external venue later.
The Hitch-Hiker is a radio play written by Lucille Fletcher. It was first presented on the November 17, 1941, broadcast of The Orson Welles Show on CBS Radio, featuring a score written and conducted by Bernard Herrmann, Fletcher's first husband. Welles performed The Hitch-Hiker four times on radio, and the play was adapted for a notable 1960 episode of the television series The Twilight Zone.
In the story, a man on a cross-country drive repeatedly notices the same hitch-hiker standing along the side of the road.
Though the hitch-hiker's appearance is non-threatening, the driver becomes increasingly disturbed upon inexplicably seeing him again and again alongside multiple roads across several states.
Eventually, the driver becomes too afraid to stop his car and even attempts to run the man down in hysterical paranoia.
After making a phone call home, however, he is shocked to hear information that totally changes his understanding of his predicament.