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115- Serenade for a Cobra

Escape · June 16, 1950 · 29 min · 4,713 words

The transcript of “115- Serenade for a Cobra”, an episode of Escape first broadcast June 16, 1950. 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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Tired of the everyday routine? Ever dream of a life of romantic adventure? Wanna get away from it all? We offer you... Escape! Escape designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure!

Escape! Brought to you by your rich field, gasoline dealer and the rich field, oil corporation of New York. marketers of richfield gasoline's motor oils and other petroleum products look for the richfield eagle under cream and blue pumps tonight we escaped to india and the story of an ex-army pilot caught up in murderous intrigue

as jalmer cut tells it in his exciting tale serenade for cobra he's got to keep playing He's got to keep playing that music and I've got to listen. He keeps it up long enough, I'll have a chance, but if he stops, I'm going to die.

And he may stop. He may stop any minute because that's what he wants. He wants me to die. My name's Monk Slavin, I'm a flyer. I don't know what ever brought me to Calcutta, but something about the name had the smell of gold.

It sounded like the kind of place where a good pilot who didn't ask questions might make a deal. A big deal and a fast one. But nothing seemed to be drifting my way. Nothing but the intense hot wind of the monsoon and the fog from the Ganges and the sea.

Rolling over the city from all sides and strangling it. There was nothing to do but drink gin and quinine water at the airport bar and pray that you didn't get malaria. Hello, Stephen. Oh, hello, Grant. You back again.

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