A Shipment of Mute Fate -Jack Webb

A deadly bushmaster brought aboard ship for a collector escapes its container, leaving the crew searching for the snake before it can strike.

This Escape broadcast aired on October 15, 1947. It is listed as episode 10 in the archive. CBS Radio Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes Ian MacDonald, Raymond Lawrence, Dee J. Thompson, and Don Diamond. Other credited names include Norman Macdonnell as director, William N. Robson as director, William N. Robson as producer, Martin Storm as writer, and Les Crutchfield as radio adaptor.

The surviving recording runs about 24 minutes.

CBS high-adventure anthology mixing original radio stories and literary adaptations.

Listeners can expect adventure and thriller, anthology in format, and adventurous, suspenseful, and atmospheric in tone.