Captain Ahab drives the Pequod and its crew toward destruction through his obsessive pursuit of the great white whale that maimed him.

This NBC University Theater broadcast aired on April 10, 1949. It is listed as episode 36 in the archive. NBC Radio Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes Donald Morrison, Henry Hull, John Beal, John Dehner, and Lester Schott. Other credited names include Andrew C. Love as director, Ernest Kinoy as radio adaptor, Don Stanley as announcer, and Hy Averback as announcer.

The surviving recording runs about 59 minutes.

This version dramatizes Moby Dick. Herman Melville is credited as author and Ernest Kinoy adapted it for radio.

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