The Island of Doctor Moreau is a program from the American radio anthology series Radio Tales. This award-winning anthology series adapted classic works of American and world literature, and was a recipient of funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. “The Island of Doctor Moreau" program from the Radio Tales series is a dramatized adaptation of the classic novel The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells, written in 1896.
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The Island of Doctor Moreau is a program from the American radio anthology series Radio Tales. This award-winning anthology series adapted classic works of American and world literature, and was a recipient of funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. “The Island of Doctor Moreau" program from the Radio Tales series is a dramatized adaptation of the classic novel The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells, written in 1896.
The narrator is the sole survivor of a shipwreck who is rescued from the sea after floating aimlessly in a dingy. The good Samaritan who comes to the rescue turns out to be a very strange old man in the process of transporting a caged puma, a llama and many staghounds by way of a cargo boat manned by an oddly dressed crew. All these bizarre supplies and companions he now brings with him (along with the rescued narrator) to his island home.
After the cargo boat is landed on the island, one of the crew members (wearing a turban and swathed in bandage-like...
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