Troubled Waters

Once at the top of his craft, Joe Carpenter hasn’t had an engineering assignment since the collapse of his bridge in India years ago. His wife, Alice, finds a job for him in the Amazon. Joe reluctantly accepts, only to endanger the job by delaying work on a key bridge: He tells Alice that before he can build it, he has to wait for a sign from the Great River God he angered in India.

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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