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RelicRadio.com presents tales of the strange and bizarre, the weird and the wicked.

Stories not necessarily of the supernatural, but of the unnatural.

Join us now for Strange Tales, featuring radio drama at its most mysterious and unusual.

Music This week on Strange Tales, we'll hear from the Columbia Workshop, CBS series, that aired from July of 1936 to April of 1947 produced 370 episodes.

Our story today is from February 19th, 1938.

It's titled The Well of the Saints. The Well of the Saints. The Columbia Workshop Now. Did every here tell of a pair across a bit of the sea where there is an island and the grave of the four beautiful saints?

There's a green ferny well behind of that place, and if you put a drop of the water out of it

and the eyes of a blind man,

you'll make him see as well as any person is walking the world.

You'll make him see as well play, The Well of the Saints. As conceived by John Millington Singh, one of the famous Irish folk play, The Well of the Saint.

As conceived by John Millington Singh, one of Ireland's greatest dramatist,

this delightful fantasy, blending mysticism with humor, rich in the poetry and music of the Irish peasantry, provides an unusual opportunity for experimental presentation.

The version you're about to hear,

while faithful to the original play,

is freely adapted for the medium of radio drama.

Our scene is a lonely, mountainous district

in the east of Ireland

one or more centuries ago.

Along a rough country road. What days are we now, American do?

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