Rappaccini’s Daughter by Favorite Story

Strange Tales (Old Time Radio)

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Performing Arts, Bizarre, Horror, Stories, Classic, Weird, Radio, Strange, Odd, Time, Tales, Old, Arts, Vintage

4.6 • 700 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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This week, Strange Tales features an adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short-story, Rappaccini's Daughter. This episode of Favorite Story aired on February 4, 1947. Listen to more from Favorite Story https://traffic.libsyn.com/forcedn/e55e1c7a-e213-4a20-8701-21862bdf1f8a/StrangeTales814.mp3 Download StrangeTales814 | Subscribe | Spotify | Support Strange Tales Relic Radio is funded solely by listener donations. If you would like to help support it, visit Donate.RelicRadio.com for more information. Thank [...]

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0:00.0	Strange Tales
0:02.0	RELES
0:03.0	Relicradio.
0:20.0	Relic Radio.com presents tales of the strange and bizarre, the weird and the wicked.
0:26.2	Stories not necessarily of the supernatural, but of the unnatural.
0:35.1	Join us now for Strange Tales, featuring radio drama at its most mysterious and unusual.
0:58.9	Welcome back to Strange Tales.
1:00.6	Thanks for joining me this Sunday.
1:03.0	We're going to hear from Favorite Story this week.
1:09.2	A series produced for NBC Radio from June of 1946 to November of 1949.
1:13.4	Our story today aired February 4th, 1947.
1:21.2	It's Rapuccini's Daughter,-hour, favorite story. I'm gonna'a. And so, I'm Why is men say that the most beautiful things in the world "'can be seen out of your own back window,
2:35.2	"'wherever you happen to live.
2:37.0	"'But how would you like to open the shutters of your bedroom window one morning
2:40.0	"'and find before you the most fantastic garden since Eden?
2:44.4	"'And how would you like to see there a young lady as lovely as a story-booked princess?
2:49.2	"'A young lady within sound of your voice
2:51.3	yet as unreachable as the other side of the moon.
2:55.3	Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote a yarn like that.
2:58.4	It's filled with intrigue, mystery, and romance,
3:01.3	and spiced throughout with a touch of the macabre.
3:04.4	The screen's favorite bogeyman
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