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179- El Guitarrero

Escape · April 19, 1953 · 29 min · 2,649 words

The transcript of “179- El Guitarrero”, an episode of Escape first broadcast April 19, 1953. 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 grind? Have a 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!

In a Mexican cantina, listening to a man speak his hate for you in word and music, while somewhere in jeopardy without your knowledge and beyond your reach, is the one you love, who may lose her life, or the man who sits across the table hating you, is the only one who can save her.

Listen now, as escape brings you E. Jack Newman's exciting story, El Guitarero. In Cassauda, I learned love, and I learned hate. I learned of gentleness, and I learned violence.

Above all, I learned that it is a place of an infinite and exact simplicity. There was a poet in a cantina. Me. There was a woman. There was the excusable arrogance of feeling young and creative.

And lastly, there was El Gittararo. So this is the place you hide at night after you're going to sleep? Not hiding, working. We interrupt this program. We have interrupted this program for the latest on the Prisoner of War Exchange in Korea.

We switch you now to Freedom Village Korea, George Herman reporting. Richard O'Brien, on the south, 2000 of Washington Heights, New York, of CFC, Robert C. Stella, I'm sure that's currently you now.

This bulletin has come to you from CVS Radio News. Stay tuned for further news from Korea. We now resume our schedule program. When is Snutchez, Guitarero? Yokiyero, Lamusica, Santa se Pofova.

What do you write? Just notes? It's been told to me that you're a famous man. that you are a poet. I am a poet. Don't you approve? I do not know of what you write.

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