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Family Theater: Monsieur Payen

Family Theater · November 24, 1954 · 29 min · 4,000 words

The transcript of “Monsieur Payen”, an episode of Family Theater first broadcast November 24, 1954. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Thanksgiving Radio plays Family Theater free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Thank you Tony Lefrano. Family Theater's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention a practice that must become an important part of our lives if we are to win peace for ourselves, peace for our families and peace for the world.

theater urges you to pray. Pray together as a family. And now, to our transcribed drama, Mr. Payen, featuring Edgar Barria in the title role. If you were to draw a line across the map of Indochina, connecting Hanoi, the northern capital to the nearby port city of Haifang, you would notice that about 40 miles south of that line's

midpoint, there's a third city, a place called Nam Din. After last July, while its two neighbors to the north looked on helplessly, Nandin became the first large city in the Red River Delta to fall to the Communists.

By then it was too late for Hanoi or Haifong to do anything but resign themselves to the inevitable. But for the rest of the free world, there is still time, although less than we may think, to profit from the bitter lesson learned by at least one of the people of Nandin, during that city's last hours of freedom.

Yes, sir. Can I buy a phone for you on the phone, sir? Thank you. I take it in the study. It's just the phone on it. I'll be back in a moment. It's going to buy a phone.

I don't know. I'll be right back. Hello? Oh, yes, Paul. No, no, most of them just arrived. Will you still be coming? You soldiers. What is it now? To polish your boots? All right, Paul. As soon as you can.

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