Famous Escapes
Stanley Finds Livingstone
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Famous Escapes presents dramatic accounts of notable escapes and adventures drawn from history. This installment, titled “Stanley Finds Livingstone,” points to the celebrated meeting of explorer Henry Morton Stanley and missionary David Livingstone in Africa.
The program offers a radio dramatization of a historical episode, using performance and sound to bring the encounter to life. Its subject combines exploration, danger, and the search for a figure whose disappearance had captured public attention.
Listeners can expect a concise historical adventure shaped for radio, with the emphasis on the people and circumstances behind a famous moment rather than on a modern documentary account.
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.
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