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In the Dark

After returning home from caring for her sick mother-in-law, a woman discovers that her husband, a musician with no political interests, has vanished—and when she begins to ask questions, she learns the chilling truth about their totalitarian state and the deadly price of inquiry.

A woman comes back from taking care of her husband's sick mother and finds that her musician husband has disappeared—but when she starts looking for answers, she uncovers the terrifying reality of their controlling government and discovers that asking questions can get you killed.

Karen Antek comes home from a month’s vacation with her mother-in-law to discover that her husband, an unassuming musician, has been taken away by the secret police. All her efforts to learn his whereabouts are worse than discouraging: Authorities deny he ever existed. Only when she finds out that her best friend’s husband also was meaninglessly carried away does she appreciate the true meaning of totalitarianism.

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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“In the Dark.” CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Radio broadcast, January 8, 1981.

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