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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Man Called X: Rescue From Czech Uranium Mine (EP3773)

The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Adam Graham

Fiction, Arts, Drama, Performing Arts

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Ken goes behind the Iron Curtain into Czechoslovakia to rescue a resistance leader working as slave labor in a uranium mine.

Original Air Date: May 13, 1952

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1:40.5

So now it is time for this week's episode of the man called X.

1:45.2

The original air date may the 13th, 1952, and the title is Rescue from Check Uranium Mine.

1:54.0

Listen to Herbert Marshall as the man called X. Wherever there is mystery, adventure,

2:07.7

intrigue, in all the strange and dangerous places of the world, there you will find the man called X.

2:24.8

The time is shortly after midnight. Somewhere in the U.S. zone of Germany, an army transport

2:33.0

plane is taken off from a secret airbase, and with throttles wide open as roaring through the

2:37.3

moonless night, roaring toward the east, toward Czechoslovakia, and the iron curtain.

2:45.4

And you can't do it. You're signing your own death warrant, maybe.

2:49.4

What else can you call parachuting into Czechoslovakia, trying to work your way into the

2:53.2

yachtym of uranium mines? Look, keep. Johan van was an old friend, a report from Prague say he's

2:59.1

been sentenced to slave labor in those mines. I ain't going to try and get him out.

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