Winter Dessert Theatre - Radio Dramas

Around The World in Eighty Days is one of Jules Verne’s most beloved stories, and originally aired on October 23, 1938.  In this timeless adventure, the intrepid Phinneas Fogg accepts a wager that he can circumnavigate the globe in just eighty days!  The story describes his passage through exotic lands and dangerous locations using whatever transportation is at hand, overcoming set-backs and always racing against the clock.

Orson Welles' radio broadcast of Treasure Island aired in July 18, 1938.  This classic adventure story by Scottish

author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrates a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold."  It introduced numerous and enduring concepts and that have become widely associated with pirates: one-legged seamen, black-sailed ships, treasure maps marked with an “X,” the frightening black spot, and parrots yelling “pieces of eight.”

Starring:  Chuck Grigaitis, Robert Mattson, Jac Mestel, L John Van Norden,

Colleen Norton, Mat Rudd, Meg Taylor, Margo Thompson, Larry Williams