Pursuit Of A Dream
Description
The life of scientist Marie Curie is dramatized, from her humble beginnings through her remarkable discovery of radioactive elements polonium and radium in the mineral pitchblende in 1898. After winning a Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1911, she died of leukemia, no doubt contracted in the course of her work with radioactive materials.
A captivating look at the renowned scientist Marie Curie and her journey to discover the mysteries of Radium.
A fascinating glimpse into the life of the famous Madam Marie Curie as she unraveled the secrets of Radium.
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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