The Man of Two Centuries
Description
Jack Carter, researching colonial Canadian history on a houseboat on the St. Lawrence River while his wife Mary has an artist’s studio on the dock, befriends a full-blooded Huron, Donnaconna. Donnaconna’s detailed knowledge of Indian culture is invaluable to Carter. Then, the Huron offers to share the source of his extraordinary information by taking Carter 300 years back through time.
A college professor tasked to write a book is aided by a Huron Indian claiming to be 1,000 years old. The historian is told that he possesses the soul of the man who discovered Canada, Jaque Cartier and he is allowed to go back in time.
A university teacher who must write a book gets help from a Huron Indian who says he is 1,000 years old. The Indian tells the teacher that he has the spirit of Jacques Cartier, the man who found Canada, and lets him travel back through time.
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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