The Overcoat
Description
Akaky Akalievich is an underpaid governmental clerk who, the humblest of his kind and the butt of cruel jokes by his fellow workers, manages to subsist on his tiny salary, nursing the single ambition of saving enough for a new overcoat. After excessive privation, he saves enough to have a tailor make him an expensive new one, only to have it stolen in the middle of winter on the first evening he goes out.
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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