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The Last Day Of Pompeii

You Are There · August 25, 1947 · 31 min · 3,547 words

The transcript of “The Last Day Of Pompeii”, an episode of You Are There first broadcast August 25, 1947. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). You Are There plays You Are There free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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The CBS broadcasting both way up at the top of the Great Amphitheater of Pompeii. It's Navy Day here in Pompeii that's blistering hot 26th day of August in the year 79. Navy Day has no doubt about it.

The mighty Roman fleet fresh from its region Mediterranean maneuver is anchored right out here in the Bay of Naples. And every Navy man that could get liberty is jam-packed in this amphitheater. Right to create a whole population of Pompeii, 20,000 people, and turned out to wander the watchdogs of the Empire.

The mighty Roman fleet commanded by plenty of the Elders. Yes, it's a great day for Pompeii. To my vantage point way up high, I can see this big bowl full of Pompeii and spread out before me, and they're having a whale of a time.

The games haven't started yet. August 26th, a rapidly 79th, a year. That's the last day of Pompeii. CBS is there. CBS takes you back 1869 years to a city in the shadow of an epic catastrophe.

All things are as they were then except for one thing. CBS is there. CBS is there, produced and directed by Robert Louis Cheon is based on authentic historical facts and quotations. And now... August 26, 79 E.T.

The Antséd and Pompaise backyards. And the Pompaised have been looking forward to this holiday for a long time. The customers are still pouring into the amphitheater with their mission ticket to Poland and France. Yashuzo showing the crowd to their seats, attrition to the ringside seats, the freedmen to the middle section, and the ladies way up in the gallery,

especially reserved for them. The big show in the arena here this afternoon, of course, is the fight between the gladiators, Pudmak, P-U-G-N-A-X, Pudmak, and Moreno's. M-U-W-R-A-N-U-S, that's Pudmak and Moreno's. But also on the program is the execution family of Nazarene who will be thrown to the lion. And after that, more contests, games,

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