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The Great Impersonation

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Just before the start of WWII, a Nazi spy in Africa plans to impersonate a neer-do-well nobleman in England to spy for the Germans. The program was recorded April 20, 1949. Last show of the season.

Englishman confronts his German doppelganger.

A British man faces off against his German look-alike.

Escape is an American radio drama. It was radio's leading anthology series of high-adventure radio dramas, airing on CBS from July 7, 1947 to September 25, 1954.

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Sat Apr 23 1949 Sat Apr 23

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Walter Newman Roy Rowan E. Phillips Oppenheim Ann Morrison Jeanne Bates John Dehner Ramsay Hill Norman Macdonnell Ben Wright Theodore Von Eltz John Dunkel Ivan Ditmars Anne Morrison Edgar Barrier Gabrielle Windsor Parley Baer William Conrad Gene Twombley Gus Bayz

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