Escape · April 21, 1950 · 29 min · 4,958 words
The transcript of “107- The Shanghai Document”, an episode of Escape first broadcast April 21, 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! Designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure!
Escape! Brought to you by the Richfield Oil Corporation of New York and the independent marketers of Richfield, Gasolines, gasoline, motor oils and other petroleum products. Look for the rich field eagle on the cream and blue pumps. Tonight we escape to the interior of China and the journey of terror down the Yangtze river
from chunking to Shanghai. As John and Gwen Bagney tell it in their gripping story of a people in turmoil, the Shanghai Document. The Yangtze River is a gray gash through the heart of China, the artery that pulsates day and night with displaced humanity. From Chunking to Shanghai, it's 1,500 crooked miles through deep gutted gorges. For those of us who took the steamer down river in those frantic months
just after the war. It was a voyage dominated by fear and intrigue and danger. It started in the saloon of the ten golden pieces over a glass of gin and the company of the man who's faced war many racial strains but no pride of ancestry and no hope for his descendants and no name as far as I could discover other than the Eurasian.
The word reaccos in the marketplace that you desperately seek transportation to Shanghai. The word is correct. The word is also correct and I'm stranded. Ah, one wonders if you lack money. No, no. My lack of influence.
One knows of a way to Shanghai. What? You know of a way. Have you ever encouraged to attempt a young sea in a junk? Well, at this point I would consider doing it in a canoe.
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