“Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!” Orson Welles stars in “The White God,” one of the very earliest of The Shadow on radio episodes (May 1, 1938). In this one, the Shadow volunteers to help find a missing scientist who holds the secret to a new invention and …

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“Eye of Evil” was written by Kathleen Hite (1917-1989). It aired on Escape (1947-1954) on July 17, 1954 as episode 231 of this long-running, highly regarded radio show. Graduating from the University of Wichita in 1938, Hite moved to California in 1950 where she would go on to become CBS’s first female staff writer. She …

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Jules (Gabriel) Verne (1828-1905) saw his Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea first serialized from 1869-1870. First translated into English in 1873 by Lewis Mercier, British censors forced him to cut major sections of the book. The translation itself contained numerous errors of its own, some of which are still being corrected to this day. …

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