Escape Radio Shows - Typhoon
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Escape Radio Shows - Typhoon

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 22, 202629 min
  • Documentary
  • Fiction & stories

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Escape! Escape tonight to the China Seas in Typhoon! The Columbia Broadcasting System and its affiliated stations presents Escape, a new series of programs of which this the fourth is Typhoon by Joseph Conrad produced and directed by William M. Robeson.

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Of all the great authors who wrote of the sea none so captured the wonder and the horror of it as did Joseph Conrad. Tonight we escape to the China Seas in In his great story, Typhoon, told in the words of a certain Mr. Dukes, chief mate of the China co-steamer Nan Shan, a young man of very remarkable perceptions.

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I've been selling the China sea long enough to see some strange and terrible things, but Nothing as bad as that was. My God himself forgot us and the whole blinking universe set out to do us in that night. It was the...

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