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Phantom Paradise

A crazy Frenchman and romance await two English prisoners facing execution for betraying their country when they wash up on a distant island!

The only two survivors of the sunken H.M.S. Arabella, Lady Valerie Castleton—accustomed to living a life of luxury—and Lt. Giles Maybury—who murdered his superior officer—manage to swim to a small island. With the help of the island’s lone inhabitant, a former French sailor, they manage to learn to live quite comfortably. They also fall in love and conduct their own wedding ceremony, swearing that under no circumstances would they return to civilization. But after a year, a British frigate sails into the island’s harbor. It is captained by the legal husband of the now-pregnant Lady Castleton.

Two British castaways sentenced to hang for treason find love, and a deranged Frenchman on a remote island!

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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“Phantom Paradise.” CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Radio broadcast, May 26, 1980.