To Be a Rose
A crazy killer locked up in a mental hospital tells the story of when he used to be a gentle writer who fell in love. But the woman he loved broke his heart and made him lose his mind.
Elwood “Curly” Quentin is lured into marriage by beautiful Pammy Sue Puckett, an editor who turns his talent for writing poetry into a fortune. During promotional campaigns for Curly, Pammy Sue often travels with Curly’s agent and friend, Jackie Thorpe. When the two are found dead in a Chicago hotel room, Curly is accused of their murder. Put under psychiatric care, he regresses into a state of amnesia, refusing to believe that Pammy Sue and Jackie are dead, or that he killed them.
A psychotic murderer kept incarcerated in a mental asylum recounts the days of him being a sensitive poet and how he fell in love. But his beloved broke his heart and drove him over the edge.
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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“To Be a Rose.” CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Radio broadcast, August 29, 1977.
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