The Ghosts of Yesterday
Description
Marge Stafford, wife of a successful American businessman, is urged by a former member of the World War II underground to identify one Harry Warren as former SS Captain Hans Dietrich. Marge, at the age of 8, was the only one not killed when Dietrich ordered the entire population of Hammenbiere annihilated. Even though she has withheld her past from her husband, Marge is willing to cooperate if she is not asked to do it publicly. But then her husband announces he just concluded a major business deal with one Mr. Harry Warren.
A socialite past her prime is asked to identify the person responsible for the death of her family and her whole village in a war pogrom. But she is long past those events and disinclined to raise the curtain on her less than modest background for the fear of endangering her present.
An aging high-society woman must name the killer who destroyed her family and hometown during wartime. But she wants to forget the past and fears that telling the truth about where she came from will ruin the life she has now.
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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