Thank you so much for the wonderful uploads. I'm only 40 (these shows are long before my time) but they take me back to another place in time and I'm grateful. Great channel!
I love the footsteps when they run the sound is hilarious. These stories are all so good the writers must have been so talented to keep coming up with clever stories. To suspense and to OTR thank you so much
Good stuff! If you can find it, watch a movie called "A Dark and Stormy Night". The male and female protagonists are based on the two reporters from this radio play. Plus, it's very funny.
The writer is John Dickson Carr. "Menace in Wax." CBS (Suspense), November 17, 1942; BBC (Appointment With Fear), November 18, 1943. The script was printed in Espionage magazine, October 1985.
Air Date:11.17.1942 ( November 17, 1942)Plot:+ "Menace In Wax". 9:30 P.M. Two English reporters discover a secret code hidden in Mme. Toussaud's waxworks and attempt to save a bomber factory from sabotage. + During the French revolution of 1793 a Swiss girl copied in wax the severed heads of those had just been guillotined. She married a French Man named Tussard and came to London and she founded Madam Tussard’s Wax Works. There it is still in Marleborne near Baker Street station, not the original building, that was destroyed by fire but it remained untouched. On a darker shadow the revolution came to England, they blasted high explosives on that street all along the road and hit the cinema next door. We are going to London under the bomber. Late one night in March of 1941 a young man hurried up to the great vast doors of Madam Tussard’s… www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/thriller/suspense/menace-in-wax-1942-11-17
