Words at War: The Ship (Encore) (A0106)
The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas
Adam Graham
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Original Radio Broadcast: July 24, 1943
Originating from New York
Program: Words at WarBased on the novel The Ship by C. S. Forester.Starring House Jameson, Alan Bunce, Victor Beecroft, Sid Cassel, Humphrey Davis, Eon McAllister, Shirley Oliver, and Alfred Shirley
Adapted for radio by Edmund Bernbreier
Original music by Frank Black
Directed by Joseph Losey
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| 0:00.0 | Hello from Boise, Idaho. |
| 0:07.7 | This is your host, Adam Graham. |
| 0:10.1 | We're taking a break from posting new episodes, but I still want to bring you to a regular dose of adventure. |
| 0:17.9 | Please enjoy this episode, which was originally played on our World War II |
| 0:22.6 | series, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, |
| 0:56.5 | send it to me at box 13 at greatdetectives.net. Well, today we have a special treat for you. |
| 1:05.0 | Today's episode is fictional, but it could very well have actually happened that way. |
| 1:11.4 | The writer was associated with naval fiction, though definitely from another era. |
| 1:17.3 | However, C.S. Forrester, famous for the Horatio Hornblower series, wrote The Ship, a realistic |
| 1:23.8 | novel of Navy Combat in World War II that was so realistic that it was chosen as a selection for words at war. |
| 1:31.5 | So here now from July 24, 1943, is the ship. |
| 1:42.7 | Words at war presents the ship. |
| 1:46.0 | With half a million men in the Royal Navy, it is inevitable that there should be some coincidence of names and ranks between characters in this book and offices and ratings now serving. |
| 2:10.2 | That is so inevitable that the author has made no attempt to avoid any such coincidence. |
| 2:15.7 | All he can do is to assure the reader that he has attempted neither portrait nor caricature of any such coincidence. All he can do is to assure the reader |
| 2:17.5 | that he has attempted neither portrait |
| 2:19.7 | nor caricature of any living person. |
| 2:29.4 | You'll find that written on one of the front pages |
| 2:31.6 | of a book I read a few days ago. |
| 2:34.0 | The ship by C.S. Forrester. Words at War |
| 2:58.4 | The National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with the Council on Books in |
| 3:04.6 | wartime, brings you another in its series of radio adaptations of great books of this war. |
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