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“We Offer You…Escape!” — starting in 1947 for seven years, the CBS show delivered on that promise. Using some of the finest directors and voice actors, and drawing on the world’s great adventure stories, Escape has legions of devoted fans seven decades on. Out of 240 episodes, 10 recordings have been lost to time. “The Run of the Yellow Mail”, the show’s 2nd nationally-broadcast episode, is one of those: not heard since its single live broadcast October 8, 1947. “Yellow Mail” is a fast-moving adventure yarn about the early days of the railroads out west.

Project Audion has faithfully recreated it from a surviving script via live transcription using a transcontinental voice cast brought together via Zoom:

Scott R. McKinley, NJ

Paul Arbisi, IL

Greg McAfee, CA

Jacob Palka, IL

Douglas Herman, CA

Ken Raney, TX

Tom Konkle, CA

With Larry Groebe in Texas helming the production