Overnight to Freedom
Description
During WWII an American POW from a German prison camp and with the help of some friendly advice, makes his attempt at escaping across Germany into occupied France. There, he tries to make contact with the French Underground. But who can he trust?
In World War II, an American prisoner breaks out of a German prison camp with help from other inmates. He travels across Germany to reach France, where the Nazis are in control. His goal is to find the French resistance fighters who are secretly fighting the Germans. But he doesn't know which French people will help him and which ones might turn him in.
Shortly after he flees a German POW camp, George McAlester, an American soldier with forged papers identifying him as a French machinist, boards a train for an overnight trip to freedom. Fearing he will be discovered, George seeks the help of a Frenchman who claims his work for the Germans allows him “to loosen fuses in their shells,” and a German woman whose father owns the machine shop where his alias, Louis Cardinet, supposedly works. McAlester is afraid, though, of where their loyalties really lie.
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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