To Be an Empress

Sophie, countess of Anhalt-Zerbst, was barely out of her teens when the mighty Empress Elizabeth of Russia chose her to marry the future czar, Peter III. Sophie changes her name, language and religion in her zeal to serve her new country well, a zeal which ambition may flame to murder.

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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