Dangerous Assignment: On Safari for Nigerian Manganese (EP3803)
The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas
Adam Graham
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Original Air Date: July 23, 1949
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| 1:12.2 | just go to patreon.greatdetectives.net. Well, I think my voice sounds better than it did in |
| 1:18.8 | yesterday's episode, though it's still not quite 100%. I found out the day after I recorded |
| 1:26.0 | that episode that I had COVID-19. So I had to take some time off from recording, take care of myself, |
| 1:34.0 | but I'm feeling up to getting caught up today. So let's go ahead and take a listen to today's |
| 1:39.3 | episode of Dangerous Assignment. The original air date is July the 23rd of 1949, |
| 1:48.7 | and the title of today's episode is on safari for a Nigerian manganese. |
| 2:09.2 | The time near midnight, the place Nigeria, West Africa, two men stand on the swaying observation |
| 2:29.2 | platform of a train which winds its way across a yawning chasm between two mountains. |
| 2:40.2 | His gorge we're crossing looks pretty deep. Yeah, about a thousand feet. I didn't realize there |
| 2:47.2 | were so many mountains in West Africa. This is the third trestle we've been over in the last hour. |
| 2:51.8 | It is hilly country, but soon we reach the inland plateau where it is more level. |
| 2:57.9 | Oh, you've been around this neck of the woods before, huh? Yeah. Oh, incidentally, I don't think we've |
| 3:03.3 | met. I'm Russ Holden. Yeah, I know. Huh? I have been following your hair. Holden. |
| 3:10.8 | Follow me. Hey, wait a minute. Get away from me. This is where you get off hair. Hold on. |
| 3:33.5 | You've seen him as target markup in full guests as Charles Dana in two years before the mast. |
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