What happens
Gordon Pym signs on as a crewman aboard the whaler Grampus, commanded by Captain Benjamin Bernard, an old acquaintance from his youth. Before sailing he is warned by sailors that the captain is dangerously unstable, and on board he finds the crew cruel and the captain increasingly erratic. Pym becomes entangled with a group of men who plot against the captain, while his own old friend Western suffers under his father's harsh discipline. A storm strikes the ship and the crew's situation grows desperate as supplies and hope run low. This is an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, presented on the Weird Circle series.
A whaling ship, the Grampus, sailing from a Boston waterfront in 1881 and later adrift in the Pacific Ocean
Characters: Gordon Pym, Captain Benjamin Bernard, Western, Dirk Peters, Sanford Allen, Tony Madsen
Listen for: Pym's discovery of the crew's mutiny plans and the storm that cripples the ship
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.