The Runaway General
In this classic tale, a historically celebrated Frenchman narrates the life of a POW escapee who survived both World Wars.
A famous French storyteller tells the story of a prisoner of war who broke free and lived through two major wars.
Henri Giraud escaped from a German prison in World War I. Now 62 and commander of the French Army, he’s captured again. But this time, he is inside one of Germany’s fiercest prisons and on a steep cliff 720 feet above the raging Elbe River.
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 Runaway General.” CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Radio broadcast, June 1, 1981.
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