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031- Jimmy Goggles the God -national broadcast

Escape · March 7, 1948 · 28 min · 3,733 words

The transcript of “031- Jimmy Goggles the God -national broadcast”, an episode of Escape first broadcast March 7, 1948. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Escape plays Escape free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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You were alone on a desert island with a tribe of hungry cannibals who think you were a god. A tribe of natives who would eat you, rather than let you. Escape. Produced and directed by William N. Robeson and designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure.

And we escaped to the South Seas and the Cannibal Kingdom in H.G. Wells' famous story. Jimmy Goggles, the God. I doubt you'll remember anything of the ocean pioneer. So a bit of the story that came to public knowledge made headlines and the newspapers at the time.

Now that I think of it, it's been over 40 years ago, it hasn't. Forty years, and the time yet I can still wake up in the middle of the night and see that cold, dead eye, a jimic, goggled stare in that mess of the darkness.

That'll give me the creeps even now. The gold star and pioneer went to the bottom of the summer coast. Only two survivors of the star from myself came out of that wreck. Mr. Sanders, the first mate in the semen named Jacob.

With a bit of luck we had enough food and water in the long boat to see us safe to papua. You wait out three times to build a puttish on dry land again Just one time here Jacob It was worth a kept mwells and ten of the lights back there Twenty-fear them a quick and quick laying back there either lad you mean in something more that mr. Saunders

These are the allowed no that car go we carried I Copra mostly and some kidney we shipped aboard a chest full of gold off was 40,000 pounds. I wonder about that chest of the top.

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