A Handful of Dust
Description
A strange story about an old curse that a Pharaoh's wife put on a woman and her family after the woman buried her alive in a tomb.
When renowned Egyptologist Conrad Theodore remarried, he chose beautiful, young, Egyptian Marsha, whose brief affair with his son Hank was long over. The elder Theodore can’t figure out why she and her brother Selim discouraged him from excavating the ancient tomb of Queen Mersegret, until a young American volunteer realizes a shocking parallel from the past in the Theodore family triangle.
The mysterious tale of an ancient curse placed upon a woman and her descendants by a Pharaoh's wife whom she had entombed alive.
CBS Radio Mystery Theater is a radio drama series created by Himan Brown that was broadcast on CBS Radio Network affiliates from 1974 to 1982, and later in the early 2000s was repeated by the NPR satellite feed. In New York City it was not aired by the then all-news WCBS but by its originating station, WOR, which produced and announced it as simply Radio Mystery Theater.
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