Leiningen Vs the Ants -National Broadcast

A defiant Amazon plantation owner relies on ingenuity and nerve as an immense army of flesh-eating ants closes in on his estate.

This Escape broadcast aired on January 14, 1948. It is listed as episode 23 in the archive. CBS Radio Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes William Conrad, Lou Merrill, Don Diamond, and Lou Krugman. Other credited names include William N. Robson as director, William N. Robson as producer, and Robert Ryf as radio adaptor.

The surviving recording runs about 29 minutes.

This version dramatizes Leinengen vs. The Ants. Carl Stephenson is credited as author and Robert Ryf adapted it for radio.

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.