Suspense · December 13, 1959 · 24 min · 2,875 words
The transcript of “The Country of the Blind”, an episode of Suspense first broadcast December 13, 1959. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Suspense plays Suspense free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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Radio 59 WROW, first on the dial. And now, another tail well calculated to keep you in... ...spence. H.G. Wells was one of the most remarkable writers of this century. A storyteller whose tails are more than mere entertainment designed for a moment of escape.
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Once I had made my way across the court of the era, I had to find Senor Khatreite. If he was still alive, or it was he, it seemed to be last. That terrible mike more than a year ago, when I slipped and fell from a ledge 18,000 feet up the face of Marasco del Ture.
It was a long and painful journey. But at last I arrived at the mine, high in the Andes above Kita, where Senor Khatreite was super-intent. I dragged my aching feet across the porch of a shack and tapped on the door.
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