Seven Waves Away
A dramatic story set aboard a lifeboat with too many survivors, forcing a grim decision about who must be thrown overboard. Six years later the premise was adapted into Alfred Hitchcock's film Lifeboat.
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Columbia Workshop was a radio series that aired on the Columbia Broadcasting System from 1936 to 1943, returning in 1946–47.
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“Seven Waves Away.” Columbia Workshop. Radio broadcast, April 2, 1938.
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Eustace Wyatt
Cast
M
Margaret Lewerth
adaptor
R
Richard Sale
author
Van Heflin
Cast
William N. Robson
Director
Bernard Herrmann
Musician