Insomnia

Anita Dwyer, left alone for the first time in many years when her husband moves out to be with a younger woman, begins to suffer extreme insomnia. Her morbid anxieties increase despite all sorts of cures suggested by her neighbor and son. She even buys a canary to keep her company, but it soon dies under very mysterious circumstances.

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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