License to Kill

A football player from the Midwest must turn into a brutal enforcer for his team to cover his wife's hospital costs. As he succeeds in this dangerous work, he becomes trapped in a nightmare of shame and terror that he's losing who he really is. In the end, the stress from his job and his wife's death destroys him.

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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