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=== Radio === Dr. Fu Manchu's earliest radio appearances were on ''[[The Collier Hour]]'' 1927β1931 on the [[Blue Network]]. This was a radio program designed to promote ''[[Collier's]]'' magazine and presented weekly dramatizations of the current issue's stories and serials. Dr. Fu Manchu was voiced by [[Arthur Hughes (American actor)|Arthur Hughes]]. A self-titled show on [[CBS]] followed in 1932β33. John C. Daly, and later [[Harold Huber]], played Dr. Fu Manchu.<ref>{{cite book|last=Richards|first=Jeffrey |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lmKJDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA34 |chapter=The Devil Doctors: Cinematic Fu Manchu |title=China and the Chinese in Popular Film: From Fu Manchu to Charlie Chan |publisher=I.B. Tauris |year=2016 |page=34 |isbn=978-1-78453-720-3}}</ref> In 2010, Fu Manchu's connections with the University of Edinburgh where he supposedly obtained a doctorate were investigated in a mockumentary by [[Miles Jupp]] for [[BBC Radio 4]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rt91z|title=Fu Manchu in Edinburgh|publisher=BBC Radio 4 Extra|access-date=2020-09-27}}</ref> Additionally, there were [[Pirate radio|"pirate" broadcasts]] from [[Continental Europe|the continent]] into Britain, from [[Radio Luxembourg]] and Radio Lyons in 1936 through 1937. [[Frank Cochrane]] voiced Dr. Fu Manchu.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Grams|first=Martin Jr. |author-link=Martin Grams Jr.|url=http://www.otrr.org/FILES/Articles/Martin_Grams_Jr_Articles/In_The_Shadow_Of_Fu_Manchu.htm |title=In the Shadow of Fu Manchu|magazine=Scarlet Street |issue=39 |date=2000 |via=Old Time Radio Researchers Group|access-date=2020-09-27}}</ref> The BBC produced a competing radio play, ''The Peculiar Case at the Poppy Club'' written by Rohmer and broadcast in December 1938. In 1939, ''[[The Shadow of Fu Manchu]]'' aired in the United States as a thrice-weekly serial dramatizing the first nine novels.<ref>{{cite book|last=Cox |first=Jim |author-link=Jim Cox (historian) |title=Radio Crime Fighters |place=Jefferson, North Carolina |publisher=McFarland & Company |year=2002 |isbn=0-7864-1390-5 }}</ref>{{page needed|date=September 2020}}
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