The Fisherman And His Soul by Columbia Workshop

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🗓️ 8 December 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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This week, we’ll hear an episode based on a story by Oscar Wilde titled, The Fisherman And His Soul. This one first aired May 7, 1938 on the Columbia Workshop. Listen to more from Columbia Workshop https://traffic.libsyn.com/forcedn/e55e1c7a-e213-4a20-8701-21862bdf1f8a/StrangeTales777.mp3 Download StrangeTales777 | Subscribe | Spotify | Support Strange Tales Relic Radio is funded solely by listener donations. If you would like to help support [...]

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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.
1:03.4	Music Welcome back to Strange Tales. Thanks for joining me this Sunday. We're going to hear from the Columbia Workshop this week, a series that debuted over CBS in July of 1936, aired for 370 episodes until April of 1947.
1:14.3	Our story today is The Fisherman and His Soul.
1:17.1	This one aired May 7, 1938.
1:19.5	Music The The Columbia Workshop, under the direction of William M. Robson,
1:59.4	present The Fisherman and His soul by Oscar Wilde.
2:14.1	Every evening, a young fisherman went out upon the sea and threw his nets upon the water.
2:20.4	One evening the net was so heavy that he could hardly draw it into the boat.
2:25.6	And he tugged at the coarse ropes, so the long veins rose up on his arm.
2:31.0	Nearer and nearer came the circle of flat corks, and the net rose at last to the top of the water.
2:37.0	But no fish at all was in it, nor any monster,
2:40.0	but only a little mermaid, lying fast asleep.
2:45.0	Ha ha ha ha ha!
2:50.0	And now by all the old distance swim!
2:53.2	What have I here?
2:55.0	Come, open your eyes.
2:58.0	Wake up!
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