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The Death Bell

A man researching his family tree runs into danger when IRA members think he works for the cops.

Family genealogy research gets a man into trouble with the IRA who believe he is from the police.

Brian Macken, an American of Irish descent, journeys to Erin to search for Carrig Cleena, the home of his ancestors. Despite the warning of his palm-reading cousin, Macken drives northward to discover that the castle’s ruins are being used as an IRA munitions depot, and he himself is suspected of being a police officer.

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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“The Death Bell.” CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Radio broadcast, May 1, 1974.

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