Treasure Island

The Colombian network takes pleasure in presenting Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater on the air in the second of a unique new summer series of nine dramatic productions. The first time in its history that radio has brought to the country an entire theatrical institution.

Colombia is proud to welcome Orson Welles to its roster of stars and to give him the opportunity of bringing to the air those same qualities of vitality and imagination that has made him the most fucked up theatrical director in America today.

Good evening. This is Orson Well speaking. If there's anything bloodthirsty of them, a whirlwolf, it's a pirate. The Mercury Theater is playing safe. Now it's vampires and their ill. Cleve you as uncannily cold as old Dracula himself who was staked down firmly and it is to be hoped permanently in his own family, far last week then. There are figures to prove

that you are susceptible to buried treasure. We calculate that no decent law-abiding citizen is immune to pirates. There are carboys and Indians, there are gangsters and g-men, but these delights are in constant like the short skirt. I don't care how young you are. Nothing charms, nothing ingratiates, nothing wins like a one-legged double-barrel buccaneer with earrings,

a hankerchief on his head and a knife in his teeth. What could be more appropriate on the starboard rail of your formatted brigantine. If you haven't a formatted brigantine, you have Treasure Island in your library because it's a great English classic and this evening because it's a great story. It's on your radio. That's what I mean by playing safe. Once there

was a small boy who asked his stepfather who had written a number of books, please, to write something interesting. The stepfather seeing his point immediately contributed a serial of something repugnance called young folk, a periodical circulated among that section of the English nation known as Tiny Tots, who were very prevalent in the 80s. The name