Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Journey #171 - The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe (as presented by NBC University Theater)

Before Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, there was Poe's C. Auguste Dupin, a Parisian detective.  This time, Dupin helps the prefect of the Paris police search for a letter from the Queen's lover, for which she is being blackmailed. 



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Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 and became an American author, poet, editor and literary critic. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre, as well as the genre of science fiction.  He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.  Poe died in 1849,  in Baltimore, under mysterious circumstances, but he left us with a legacy of tales of wonder and woe, the marvelous and the macabre.

NBC University Theater was a brand the National Broadcasting Co. applied to a category of radio programming. Although not actually a university, some colleges and universities collaborated in some of the programming, either contributing to its content or including the programming in their curriculum. NBC University Theater's most well-known radio series was The World's Great Novels. NBC used the name "University Theater" or similar from about 1923–1947.

Theme music: Liberator by Man In Space

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