36xxxx 095 A Beautiful Apartment: Magic Island

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“36xxxx 095 A Beautiful Apartment” is an episode of Magic Island, the old-time radio show that aired in 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Captain Bradford, Jerry Hall, Joan Gregory, John Gregory and Mrs. Gregory return to the Magic Island and find it deserted. An elevator carries them deep below the South Pacific into a polished steel room. They discover that their belongings from Los Angeles, including Mrs. Gregory's silverware and table, have been brought down to the underground quarters, and each is given a private room opening onto a central chamber. At dinner, meals appear on demand and must be finished within a set time. The group must decide how to live under the control of the Euclideans, who tell them they will stay for the rest of their lives.

A polished steel underground chamber two hundred feet below the South Pacific Ocean, on the submerged island of Euclidea

Characters: Captain Bradford, Jerry Hall, Joan Gregory, John Gregory, Mrs. Gregory, G47

Listen for: The moment the group discovers their furniture and silverware from Mrs. Gregory's Los Angeles home already waiting in their new rooms, and G47's statement that they will stay for the rest of their lives

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.