An aging millionaire's obsession with escaping death leads an English scholar to uncover a grotesque secret about immortality with horrifying consequences.

This NBC University Theater broadcast aired on December 12, 1948. It is listed as episode 21 in the archive. NBC Radio Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes Alan Hale, Donald Morrison, Earl Keen, Lynn Whitney, and Marlene Ames. Other credited names include Andrew C. Love as director, Ernest Kinoy as writer, and Don Stanley as announcer.

The surviving recording runs about 60 minutes.

This version dramatizes After Many a Summer Dies the Swan. Aldous Huxley is credited as author.

A literary anthology presenting radio adaptations of important novels and plays, designed to bring major works of literature to a broad audience and at times used alongside university study programs.