The Many Names of Death
Description
Gerald Furlong, a staid trust officer, finds himself torn between his wife Cecily's plea for stability and his secretary Helene's push into a reckless new life that brings him excitement but also the haunting sense he is losing his true self.
Bank trust officer Gerald Furlong's new attractive secretary tells him he's in a rut and that, though 45, he looks 55 and could look 35. Gerald ultimately falls for her line, rents her an apartment, buys her clothes, starts gambling and even thinks of leaving his wife. Only his alter ego, Jerry, whom he keeps seeing in a mirror, warns Gerald of the consequences.
A conservative bank manager named Gerald Furlong gets caught between two women - his wife Cecily who wants him to stay safe and steady, and his secretary Helene who leads him into a dangerous new world that thrills him but makes him fear he's becoming someone he doesn't recognize.
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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