This is the Relic Radio Show.

Old Time Radio Entertainment still standing the test of time from Relicradio.com. Tired of the everyday routine.

Ever dream of a life of romantic adventure?

Want to get away from it all?

We offer you escape.

Escape! We offer you escape. Escape, designed to free you from the four walls of today

for a half hour of high adventure.

Tonight, we escape to the prison island of New Caledonia

and to the murderous conflict between one of the prisoners

and the monstrous Monsieur de Nouve,

official executioner,

as John Russell tells it in his terrifying story,

The Red Mark. The Red Mark.

We breathe in, breathe out, inhale and exhale.

And we are therefore considered officially as living.

Privately, however, and always with a snarl deep in our throats,

we call ourselves the living dead.

We sleep without resting, wake without desire,

reap without pleasure, and work without hope.

Some of us work in the mines, some in the copra sheds. I myself am a barber.

But all of us wear the same straw sandals and the same rough canvas jackets.

And we are never allowed to forget that this is the penal colony of New Caledonia.

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