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Pandora

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In the future, people create a perfect world where no one feels fear, anger, or sadness. But Pandora wants to spread her pain to others, and Mara loves Willis and their child so much it becomes dangerous to their peaceful society. The leaders decide Mara must die, but instead they send her back in time, where she learns to value the life she once had.

Years into the future, a perfect society is born-- a society without fear, hate and all other negative emotions. Pandora seeks to inflict her sorrow on others and Mara's obsessive love for Willis and their baby threatens to destroy Paradise. This leads to Mara being sentenced to death, but at the last moment she is sent to the past where she begins to appreciate the life she had.

Hundreds of thousands of years in the future, in a society where there is only love and happiness, a woman, like Pandora, threatens to inflict her sorrow on others. In Paradise, Mara is not happy just to gratify her desires, to be beautiful, and talented, and to live forever. Her unhappiness and her desire to love Willis and their baby exclusively threaten to destroy the entire society, so she is condemned to death. At the last moment she is sent instead to the past, where she surprisingly finds that hard work, possessive love and a short life are no more satisfying.

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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