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The Beach of Falesa

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A trader from an island gets kicked out of his town for marrying a local woman against his religion's rules. To win back his family's honor and get his business back, he has to beat a smart and tough competitor.

An island merchant is cast out of his village after marrying a local woman in defiance of their faith. In order to restore his family's pride and reclaim his trade, he must go against a shrewd and highly competitive business rival.

A trader arrives on a Pacific island where natives fear approaching his store due to a rival voodoo threats. He must destroy the rival idols to restore trade. Adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson 1892 novella.

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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