Change of Heart
Description
A businessman gets a pig valve during heart surgery and discovers this medical procedure changes more than just his health. The story shows how people fight against greed and selfishness in a world that turns them into pigs. Roger K. Skipworth comes out of the operation with a fresh view of life, but he still wants to eat pig food.
Millicent Sanford’s parting shot to corporate kingpin Roger Skipworth as she broke off their engagement was to call him a “pig.” Not long afterward, Roger is rushed into the hospital where an ailing heart valve is replaced by a porcine substitute, and Roger begins to think there may be something after all to Millicent’s remark.
This unusual story of a businessman who undergoes a heart operation and receives a pig's valve is more than a medical oddity. It is a parable of man's struggle against materialism and self-centeredness in a world where he has become a pig. Roger K. Skipworth emerges with a new outlook on life, but his craving for pig food remains.
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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