Death at a Distance
Description
Dr. John Best, an English physician in West Africa, struggles between rationality and the supernatural as he investigates the mysterious death of Etienne Napier, an elephant hunter obsessed with voodoo. Best meets Dr. Barola, a native doctor who blends modern medicine and voodoo, and together they consider the power of belief and the mind's vulnerability.
English doctor John Best works in West Africa where he must choose between logic and magic while looking into how elephant hunter Etienne Napier died under strange circumstances. Napier was fascinated by voodoo before his death. Best teams up with Dr. Barola, a local doctor who mixes regular medicine with voodoo practices, and they explore how powerful beliefs can be and how easily the human mind can be influenced.
Dr. John Best had all the knowledge modern medicine could impart when he set up shop in a remote west African village. But when one of the villagers, a hated hunter, is mysteriously plagued by pain and hallucinations, the young doctor is powerless against the overwhelming forces of native revenge, voodoo and death.
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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