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Big Momma

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Harry Simmons refuses to allow a large company to locate in the small community he serves as town planner. Suddenly his cherished manuscript, rejected 20 times before, is accepted by the country’s most prestigious publisher. Its successful release makes him a happy celebrity until he discovers that the publisher, a talk-show hostess and famous reviewer all work for the company he spurned: Big Momma.

In a busy American town, town planner Harry Simmons struggles with integrity and ambition as he tries to publish his book, "City of Tomorrow." He is tempted to compromise his ideals by accepting a lucrative offer from a businessman to publish his manuscript if he will approve a controversial building project.

Town planner Harry Simmons faces a tough choice in a bustling American city when a businessman offers to help publish his book "City of Tomorrow" - but only if Harry approves a questionable construction project that goes against everything he believes in.

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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