The fourth episode of The Campbell Playhouse, titled “Mutiny on the Bounty,” is a radio adaptation of the novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. This episode originally aired on January 13, 1939, and features Orson Welles as Captain Blig
The Campbell Playhouse was a radio drama series that aired on CBS from 1938 to 1941.
Here's a breakdown of what made it interesting:
Star Power: It was directed by and starred the legendary Orson Welles, known for his innovative use of sound effects and captivating voice.
Classic Adaptations: During its first two seasons (1938-1940), the show focused on hour-long adaptations of classic plays, novels, and even some popular movies. Think "The Count of Monte Cristo" or "Rebecca" brought to life through radio.
Shifting Format: After Welles left, the show continued for a season with a shorter format (30 minutes) and a focus on lighter fare, often featuring Hollywood actors.
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The Campbell Playhouse was a radio drama series that aired on CBS from 1938 to 1941.
Here's a breakdown of what made it interesting:
Star Power: It was directed by and starred the legendary Orson Welles, known for his innovative use of sound effects and captivating voice.
Classic Adaptations: During its first two seasons (1938-1940), the show focused on hour-long adaptations of classic plays, novels, and even some popular movies. Think "The Count of Monte Cristo" or "Rebecca" brought to life through radio.
Shifting Format: After Welles left, the show continued for a season with a shorter format (30 minutes) and a focus on lighter fare, often featuring Hollywood actors.
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Remember that times have changed, and some shows might not reflect the standards of today’s politically correct society. The shows do not necessarily reflect the views, standards, or beliefs of Entertainment Radio
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00:23players of Campbell's Soups present the Campbell Playhouse. Orson Welles, producer.
00:44Good evening, listeners. This is Ernest Chappell speaking. Tonight, the Campbell Playhouse
00:47presents Orson Welles in his own radio version of that great sea story, Mutiny on the Bounty.
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01:56Good evening, this is Orson Welles. On the 12th of September, 1792, there occurred in
02:09England the most remarkable court martial in maritime history. Seven naval officers
02:14and men were on trial for their lives before the Lord's Commissioner of the Admiralty on
02:18charge of high treason. Revelations of this trial of conditions prevailing on the ships
02:22of the British Navy came finally to exert a powerful influence in humanizing the administration
02:28of the world's navies, and making more tolerable life at sea.
02:40Prisoners Van Forth, Roger Byam, midshipman. Here, sir. James Morrison, Olsen's mate. Here,
02:53sir. William Purcell, ship's carpenter. Here, sir. Thomas Burkett, seaman. Here, sir. John
03:00Merrill, seaman. Here, sir. Thomas Ellison, seaman. Here, sir. You are here to be tried
03:07by a special court of naval inquiry, assembled aboard His Majesty's flagship Duke, under
03:12Article 19 of the Naval Articles of War, which read as follows. If any person in or belonging
03:18to the fleet shall make or endeavor to make any mutinous assembly upon any pretense whatsoever,
03:25every person offending herein, being convicted thereof by the sentence of the court martial,
03:30shall suffer death.
03:32First witness to the crown, Captain Blythe. Captain Blythe. Yes, my lord. Captain Blythe,
03:40have you any statement to make to this court concerning the mutiny aboard His Majesty's
03:45ship, Bounty, while under your command in the great South Seas? I have, sir. I have
03:50prepared a statement which I now beg the court's permission to read. The court will hear your
03:55statement, Captain Blythe. I respectfully beg to submit to the Lord's commission of
03:59the admiralty the information that His Majesty's armed vessel Bounty, under my command, was
04:05taken from me by some of the superior officers and men on the 28th day of April, 1789, in
04:10the following manner. A little before sunrise, Fletcher Christian, who was mate of the ship
04:16and officer of the watch, together with the accused and certain others of the crew, came
04:21into my cabin and, while I was asleep, seized me in my bed and, with cutlasses and bayonets
04:26fixed at my breast, threatened me with instant death if I spoke or made the least noise.
04:32I was hauled on deck in my shirt and without a rag else. The boatswain was ordered to hoist
04:37the launch out, and the officers and men who remained loyal were ordered into the boat.
04:42We then veered astern, all nineteen souls. The boat was so lumbered and deep in the water
04:47that it was believed we should never reach shore. The size of the boat was 23 feet from
04:52stem to star and rode six hours. After considering our melancholy situation, I was earnestly
04:57solicited by all hands to take them toward home. Therefore, after commending our souls
05:02to God, I bore away for New Holland and two more across a sea but little known, in a small
05:08boat laden with nineteen souls, without a single map of any kind and nothing but my
05:12own recollection and general knowledge of the situation of places to direct us. After
05:18enduring dangers and privations impossible to describe, we sighted Timor on the twelfth
05:25of June, and on the morning of the fifteenth before daylight I anchored under the fort
05:28of the Dutch settlement at Kupang. This voyage, in an open boat, I believed to be unparalleled
05:35in the history of navigation. One thing I wish to add, that on the night preceding the
05:41mutiny, coming upon deck during the middle watch, according to my custom, I discovered
05:46Fletcher Christian, the ringleader of the mutineers, in earnest conversation with Roger
05:49Byam, Mitrovan, and the accused. In the darkness of the deck I was not observed by these men
05:55who were standing on the starboard side of the quarterdeck between the guns, nor had
05:59I any apprehension at that time that their conversation was not innocent. But as I approached
06:06unseen, I saw Roger Byam shake hands with Christian, and I distinctly heard him say
06:11these words, you can count on me, to which Christian replied, good, that's settled then.
06:18The moment they discovered me they broke off their talk. I have not the slightest doubt
06:23that this conversation concerned the forthcoming mutiny. It is all alone.
06:29Roger Byam, stand forth.
06:37Roger Byam, you have been accused with others of mutinous and piratical seizure of his majesty's
06:43arm, Mr. Ponte. You have heard the Crown's witness. Roger Byam, do you plead guilty or
06:50not guilty?
06:51My lord and gentlemen, I declare before God and the members of this court that I am innocent,
06:56that I have never been guilty either in thought or in deed of the crime of which I am charged.
07:01Roger Byam, the court is now ready to receive whatever you may have to say in your own defense.
07:07My lords, I joined his majesty's armed transport bounty as a midshipman on the 21st of December
07:151787. We were off Spithead, lying to for stores and crews to come aboard. I remember my first
07:24sight of the bounty. The crew crowded in the after deck around the huddled form of a man,
07:31lashed the capstan's bar, and Captain Bly reading from an admiralty order.
07:37If any person in or belonging to his majesty's fleet shall strike or endeavor to strike an
07:43officer, he shall be flogged in turn on board every ship of the fleet.
07:48Master Downes.
07:49Yes, sir.
07:50How many lashes are due from our ship?
07:51Two dozen, sir.
07:52Very well. Mr. Morrison.
07:54Yes, Captain Bly.
07:55Two dozen lashes.
07:56One moment, Captain.
07:57Yes, surgeon.
07:58The prisoner is dead, sir.
08:00Lucky devil, we were only the fifth ship.
08:03Well, Mr. Morrison, what are you waiting for?
08:05But the man is dead, sir.
08:06Yes, I heard the surgeon's report.
08:08Come, my dinner's getting cold. Two dozen lashes, Mr. Morrison.
08:12Two dozen lashes, dead or alive.
08:14Two dozen it is, sir.
08:23On the morning of the 23rd of December, with 45 officers and crew aboard, and as the guns
08:37of the fleet fired a farewell salute, the bounty set sail for Tahiti and the great
08:42South Seas.
08:43Lieutenant Crixton.
08:46Aye, Captain Bly.
08:47Tick-Shot, raising anchor, sir.
08:49Very well, sir.
08:51Friar Tuftles.
08:52Aye, sir.
08:53Mr. Purcell.
08:54Aye, sir.
08:55Stinkler.
08:56Aye, sir.
08:57Surgeon Hoggan.
08:58At your service, sir.
08:59Surgeon Hoggan, you'll moderate both your voice and your rum rations at your post.
09:04Very well, sir.
09:05Mr. Morrison, we're ready, sir.
09:06Aye, sir.
09:11All hands out or down here.
09:13Lash and carry.
09:14All hands to their stations.
09:17All hands to their stations.
09:19Hold short, men.
09:20Those at the top, those.
09:22Aye, you sleep on the forklifts.
09:25The men toppling off the INA alive.
09:28You crawling caterpillars.
09:30Aye, sir.
09:31Away I come, men.
09:32Yo heave.
09:34Ho!
09:35Yo heave.
09:37Ho!
09:38Mr. Falkorne.
09:39Heave.
09:40Ho!
09:41Captain Aysel.
09:42Aye, sir.
09:43Ho!
09:44Team party.
09:45Ho!
09:46Team party.
09:47Ho!
09:49Ho!
09:50Lord's the main taxi livery.
09:52Ho!
09:53Ho!
09:54Ho!
09:55Ho!
09:56Ho!
09:57Ho!
09:58Ho!
09:59Ho!
10:00Ho!
10:01Ho!
10:02Ho!
10:03Ho!
10:04Ho!
10:05Ho!
10:06On Christmas Day, the highland day, the bounty headed away to sea with Falkorne's sails.
10:13She was a small ship, as you know, of little more than 200 tons.
10:18And the great cabin aft was rigged as a garden for the transportation of breadfruit trees
10:23from the island of Tahiti to the West Indian plantations.
10:27Thus, the ship's quarters were more than usually crowded, a circumstance which undoubtedly
10:32affected the temper of its company.
10:35The officers messed in a screened-off space on the lower deck, aft of the main hatch.
10:41At the captain's table sat Mr. Pryor, the ship's navigator, an elderly man long in the
10:47service of his majesty's navy, and Mr. Christian, the mate, a man of only 24, a fine presence
10:55from a good English family.
10:57Now, if you talk to me about sea men, Mr. Christian, I know them better than you, because
11:01they're a lazy, incompetent lot of scoundrels.
11:04Heaven knows the captain hath trials enough with such a crew.
11:08Greggs of public houses, they don't know a sheet from a tack.
11:11I have adventure to differ with you, Captain Bly.
11:14I should call Ellison and Mills first-class sea men.
11:17Even Burkett, though he may be willful...
11:19Willful, eh?
11:20Burkett's an insolent hound.
11:21I have my eye on him.
11:22Slightest report of Miss Conrocks, I'll have him seized up and flogged.
11:26If I may express an opinion, Captain Bly...
11:28Yes, Mr. Christian?
11:29Burkett's a man to tame with kindness rather than with blows.
11:32La-dee-da, Mr. Christian.
11:35On my word, you should apply for a place as master in the young lady's seminary.
11:40Kindness, indeed.
11:41A fine captain you'll make with such ridiculous notions.
11:44Our sea men understand kindness as well as they understand Greek.
11:47Fear is what they do understand.
11:49Without fear, mutiny and piracy would be rife on the high seas.
11:54Aye, there's some truth in that, sir.
11:55I can't agree.
11:56Sea men don't differ from other Englishmen.
11:59There are some, the best of them, who will follow a fair and kind officer to the ends of the earth.
12:04Conrocks says I trust him as the end of a yard urn.
12:08If you have to talk such nonsense, Mr. Christian, don't do it in my mess where I have to listen to you.
12:14Very well, Mr. Bly.
12:16In the future, I shall die in where my opinions are more acceptable.
12:27From that day on, and for the rest of the voyage,
12:30Captain Bly took his meals by himself in his cabin.
12:34In latitude 39 degrees north, just off the coast of Tenerife,
12:38we ran into heavy weather.
12:40A huge wave stove in three of our longboats,
12:43carried away our cases of beef,
12:46and spoiled a large part of our stock of bread.
12:49We laid into Santa Cruz for fresh supplies of water and beef.
12:53The meat that was taken on ship was so tainted the men threw most of it overboard.
12:57Captain Bly kept the men at work, repairing the ship's boats from morning till night.
13:03Captain Bly.
13:04Yes, Mr. Fryer.
13:06Men are asking when they can start shore leave, sir.
13:08So they can get drunk in the taverns, I suppose.
13:11Been at sea nearly eight weeks, sir.
13:13Maybe eight months before they set foot in land and might just well get used to it.
13:17No shore leaves, Mr. Fryer.
13:19Aye, sir.
13:28We left Santa Cruz at the end of February.
13:31We carried no purse, sir.
13:33Bly filled the office himself, assisted by Samuel, his clerk,
13:36a smug, tight-lipped little man,
13:39who was believed to be the captain's spy.
13:41On Monday of every week, he and Captain Bly opened up the casks
13:45and checked over the supplies in the storage.
13:51Eighteen pounds salt beef.
13:53Eighteen pounds, sir.
13:54What's wrong with that cake, Booker?
13:56Looks like it's been opened, sir.
13:57Oh, so it has.
13:59Mr. Fryer, come here at once, sir.
14:01Mr. Fryer, Captain Bly calling you, sir.
14:03Yes, Captain?
14:04One of these casks has been opened and two cheeses are missing.
14:07Well, they may have been short-weighted when we were provisioned, sir.
14:10They were not, Mr. Fryer. I checked them.
14:12These cheeses were stolen.
14:13Well, perhaps you'll recollect, sir, that while we were at Spithead,
14:15a cask was opened by your order and the cheeses carried ashore.
14:18Hold your tongue, Burkett!
14:20The boat was manned by a pack of thieves.
14:22Surely, Captain, you don't think that I...
14:24have any delusion against me officers and men.
14:27But I'll tame you by heaven, I will.
14:30I'll make you eat grass before I'm done with you.
14:34Samuel!
14:35Yes, sir?
14:36Get the allowance of cheeses stocked.
14:37And the officers, too, my gentlemen.
14:38The efficiency's made good.
14:39Yes, Captain.
14:40And, Burkett, if I hear another word out of you,
14:42I'll have you seized up and flogged to the boat.
14:45Samuel, you'll block the storeroom
14:49and bring the keys to my captain.
14:55Yes, sir, help me.
14:57Bly ordered those two cheeses taken out of Spithead.
15:00I can beg you there, Burkett.
15:02I carried them myself.
15:04Two cheeses and a cask of vinegar.
15:06A Bly's house.
15:07So that's the game, is it?
15:09Lining his pockets by starving us.
15:11Curse his blood.
15:13I'll be hanged if I do any more work on this ship.
15:15If he puts back our cheese...
15:17I'm with you, lads.
15:18No more work by any in this mess.
15:20And I'll give the word to Quintel,
15:23and he'll pass it on.
15:25No more work.
15:27No more work.
15:29No more work.
15:30No more work.
15:31No more work.
15:39Come in.
15:41Captain Bly.
15:43Yes, Mr. Christen.
15:45As officer of the deck, sir,
15:46I feel it my duty to make a report.
15:48Oh, yeah? What is it?
15:49The grumbling in the forecastle, sir.
15:51It's becoming serious.
15:52How is it?
15:53What are the scoundrels grumbling about now?
15:55Many things, sir.
15:56Chiefly, the food.
15:57They're not satisfied with the rations, sir.
15:59By heaven, they'd better make up their minds to be satisfied.
16:02Captain Bly, as second officer,
16:04I am in a measure responsible for their conduct.
16:07If I may suggest, sir,
16:08I think it would be wise to listen to their grievances.
16:10You may keep your suggestions to yourself, Mr. Christen.
16:13I think it only right that you should hear what the...
16:15I am the only judge, sir, of what's right and wrong on this ship.
16:18I'm tired of their bloody complaints.
16:21Since you seem to be their advocate, Mr. Christen,
16:23you can tell them this.
16:25The first man to complain from now on
16:28will be placed in chains.
16:36About a hundred leagues off the coast of Brazil,
16:38the wind chopped around to north and northwest,
16:41and the bounty lay becalmed.
16:43Here, another incident occurred
16:45to aggravate the resentment of the men.
16:47We'd been at sea six months,
16:49and for ten weeks now, outside of the officers' mess,
16:52there had been no fresh food of any sort on board the bounty.
16:55Taking advantage of the calm,
16:57the crew employed themselves with fishing for shark,
17:00with pieces of rotten pork for bait.
17:02Shark ahead! Shark ahead!
17:05There he goes! Look! Right under the bows!
17:07Give him the bait there! Slack the line!
17:09He's sinking his line! Look!
17:11Got him, Ergots?
17:13He's on! He's a big one!
17:16Heave ho! Heave ho!
17:19Here he comes! He's a big one, all right!
17:22Heave ho!
17:24That'll settle him straight!
17:26At him, boys! At him with your knives!
17:28Slice him up, men!
17:29Careful there, Mills!
17:30With that cutlass, watch where you're cutting!
17:32Shark meat's good eating.
17:33It's better than dried dog's meat any day!
17:35Look out! Someone's coming.
17:37It's Samuel.
17:38Samuel. Captain's spy.
17:41He doesn't get a scrap of the shark's meat.
17:43He doesn't get a scrap of the shark's meat.
17:45You hear, men? Not a scrap.
17:49A fine catch, eh, men?
17:52I say it's a fine catch of fish you got there.
17:55I must have a slice, eh, Mr. Burkitt?
17:58So you must have a slice, Mr. Samuel!
18:00I must have a glass of grog and a stiff one, too!
18:02If you eat shark today...
18:04Come, come, my good man.
18:06You have enough fish there for a dozen.
18:07You have enough grog sold away for a thousand, by heaven!
18:09It's for the captain's table I wanted.
18:11Take him a shark yourself. This is mine.
18:13He gets the best of the bread and the pick of the junk cask as it is.
18:16You forget yourself, Burkitt!
18:18Come, give me a slice.
18:21That large one, and I'll say nothing.
18:24Tell me, will you?
18:25You'll take your slice right in your sneaking face!
18:34Burkitt spent the night in irons.
18:36His messmates saved him their entire allowance of grog
18:38to fortify him against the flogging they knew to be inevitable.
18:43At six bells, Mr. Bly came on deck.
18:46Christian?
18:47Yes, Captain Bly?
18:48Call all hands on deck to witness punishment.
18:50Yes, sir.
18:51All men on aft deck, force them.
18:52Aye, Mr. Christian.
18:57All hands out on deck! All hands!
18:59All hands, sir! All hands!
19:03I report all men on deck, Captain Bly.
19:05Very good, Mr. Christian.
19:07Bring the greetings, Mr. Purcell.
19:09The greetings are ready, sir.
19:11Thomas Burkitt, step forward.
19:15Anything to say?
19:16No, sir.
19:17Strip!
19:19The Norton, seize him up.
19:23Seized up, sir.
19:25Thomas Burkitt, for mutinous conduct, I sentence you to three dozen lashes.
19:30Mr. Morrison.
19:31Yes, sir.
19:32Mr. Morrison, see that you lay on with the will.
19:35Report to me at breakfast when you're done.
19:37Yes, sir.
19:38Yes, sir.
19:39Mr. Burkitt.
19:40Mr. Burkitt.
20:06Did you see Burkitt when they cut him down?
20:08Look at the face he was.
20:09The bone shown through the flesh.
20:11And now the old devil's got Purcell in ire.
20:13I say, Mr. Fryer and Bly ain't speaking no more.
20:16Pretty past that.
20:17For a ship what's got half the world between her and England.
20:20What way do we get back?
20:22It'll be a day of reckoning for old Bly.
20:25Aye, and maybe before we get back.
20:27What do you say, Mills?
20:28We gotta get back to England, don't we?
20:30We could get back without Bly if we had to.
20:32There's a man that can take the body home.
20:34I ain't a better man than Bly.
20:36Christian, you mean?
20:37Christian.
20:38Yeah, that's right.
20:40Mr. Christian.
20:42Mr. Christian.
20:50Fortunately for Captain Bly,
20:52the gale blew up that night
20:54and all hands were kept busy keeping the ship from being swamped.
20:58Day after day we scuttled before strong westerly to southwesterly winds,
21:02carrying only the forcel and close reef main topsail.
21:07At last on the 20th of November we rounded Cape Horn.
21:11Five weeks later we sighted the first coral reefs
21:14and saw the great mountains of the island of Tahiti.
21:17Land ho!
21:21Land to the starboard!
21:25Land to the starboard!
21:30Mr. Christian.
21:31Yes, sir.
21:32Take the sounding.
21:33Yes, sir.
21:34Mills!
21:35To the portage by the deep savan water surely.
21:40Prepare to anchor.
21:41Yes, sir.
21:42Morrison!
21:43All men to their stations!
21:48All men to their stations!
21:52Well, there it is, Mr. Christian.
21:56The isle of Tahiti.
21:58Long, hard voyage.
22:01By heaven, there it is at last.
22:04Looks like a beautiful island.
22:06It is.
22:08Captain Cook, under whom I sail these waters, loved it.
22:11Only next to England.
22:14Where I, an old man, and my work done,
22:16I should ask nothing better than to end my days under its palms.
22:21Mr. Christian.
22:22Yes, sir.
22:23Sounding.
22:24Mills!
22:25By the deep five, one half less five, sir, and shawling fast.
22:29Lower away.
22:30Lower away, there!
22:31Aye, sir!
22:35Negative, it's coming aboard, sir.
22:37Lower the line.
22:38Aye, sir.
22:40Mr. Christian.
22:41Yes, sir.
22:42Set a watch.
22:44See that those thieving yellow devils don't steal anything when they come aboard.
23:04The next day, the crew went ashore.
23:07The danger of the mutiny seemed past.
23:10The hardships of the voyage were soon forgotten.
23:13We lived on the fat of the land, amongst affectionate native friends.
23:18Those were the happiest weeks I ever spent.
23:22Our host was the chief of the island.
23:24He had two daughters, Hina and Tahani.
23:29Mr. Christian and I used to visit them often.
23:32All of us would go swimming.
23:34Sporting in the breakers or lying on the white sand of the coral beach.
23:43Hina.
23:44Yes, Byam.
23:45The tide is high.
23:46Swim with me out to the reef underwater.
23:48How about it, Christian?
23:49Oh, Byam, you're not lazy enough for the South Seas.
23:52I'll stay here with Tahani.
23:54Ready, Hina?
23:55Ready.
23:56Come.
23:58Oh, Byam, you made me swim like crazy.
24:03I'll show you when we get to the reef.
24:10Christian?
24:11Yes?
24:12Are you a chief in your own land?
24:16A small one, perhaps, Tahani.
24:18I knew you must be.
24:21And have you no wife?
24:24None.
24:25I have no husband.
24:28Tahani.
24:30Why do you stop?
24:31Tahani is listening.
24:33When the ship sails, Tahani, I must go with it.
24:37But it will be two moons before the ship sails.
24:40Two moons are soon past, Tahani.
24:43We have a legend, Christian, here in Tahiti,
24:47that time is a long lizard that sleeps with its tail in its mouth.
24:52And to those who keep their hearts within its circle, no harm can come.
24:57No harm will come, Tahani.
25:01What are you doing with those flowers?
25:03Tahani, make a wreath to go around your neck.
25:06White flower, long stem.
25:08What do you call it?
25:10This one?
25:11The tofano.
25:13Looks like the lotus.
25:15In my country, we have legends, too, Tahani.
25:19In my country, they say a sailor who once tastes the lotus never goes home.
25:42You are listening to the Campbell Playhouse presentation of Mutiny on the Bounty.
25:47We pause now for station identification.
25:49This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
25:52This is Ernest Chappell welcoming you back to the Campbell Playhouse.
26:18In a minute or two, we will resume our presentation of Mutiny on the Bounty starring Orson Welles.
26:23Meanwhile, may I say a word or two about mutiny in another form?
26:27Over many years, modern genius has been showing women the way to give their families better food with less kitchen time.
26:35And call it mutiny or call it evolution,
26:38women have been quick to take full advantage of these benefits for their families and themselves.
26:44No longer does the good housewife feel she must spend long hours each week making her own bread and churning her own butter.
26:51To give her family their favorite dishes, it is no longer necessary to spend so many hours in her kitchen.
26:57Her household shelves are laden down with many of these foods ready prepared for her and of a quality equal to her own good homemade kind.
27:06Among these fine foods are soups, Campbell soups.
27:11If you have never tried them, I invite you to try a can of Campbell's chicken soup tomorrow.
27:16I cannot think of a finer way to introduce you to Campbell's soups than that.
27:21Once you've tasted Campbell's chicken soup, I feel certain you'll be convinced that soup making at home is a task you can well turn over to Campbell's chefs.
27:31And now, back to the Campbell Playhouse presentation of Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Orson Welles.
27:37Mr. Norris, Stanforth. Roger Byam, midshipman. Yes, sir. James Morrison, boatman's mate. Yes, sir.
27:55William Purcell, ship's carpenter. Yes, sir. Thomas Burkitt, seaman. Yes, sir. John Mill, seaman. Yes, sir.
28:03Thomas Ellison, seaman. Yes, sir.
28:06Roger Byam, have you anything further to say in your defense?
28:11I have, my lord.
28:13Toward the end of March, it became evident to all hands that the bounty would soon sail.
28:19More than a thousand young breadfruit trees and pots and tubs would be taken on board.
28:25The relaxation of discipline now came to an end.
28:29Captain Bly ordered Samuel to seize all the gifts which the friendly natives had given the men.
28:36With abundance around them, the crew were again put on slender rations.
28:40Two of them, deserted to the hills, were caught and severely flogged.
28:44On our last visit ashore, Mr. Christian was more than usually silent.
28:52Christian, you are going to sail. Is that not so?
28:58Yes, Tahani. When?
29:00Tomorrow. Sunrise.
29:03Oh.
29:04Where will you be, Tahani, when we sail?
29:07Here on the shore, waving my hand.
29:10I'll watch for you.
29:12Christian, will you think of Tahani sometimes in your own land?
29:17I will not stay in my own land. I shall come back, Tahani.
29:22Here, Christian. These are for you.
29:26Black pearls. Tahani, where did you get these?
29:31I swam very deep one morning off Coral Reef. Our people say pearls make men never forget.
29:38Your people say right, Tahani.
29:40And I shall wait, Christian. I shall wait for you to come back.
29:45And every noon I shall watch for your ship.
29:49May Kaleo help Paoli, Christian. May Kaleo help Paoli.
30:12Mr. Christian, Mr. Byam. You're late.
30:16I'm sorry, sir. I didn't realize...
30:18There's no definite time for our return, Captain Byam.
30:20Wait a minute. I'm sure you'll be back by four bells.
30:24Have you got there, Mr. Christian?
30:26Some gifts, sir, from our friends on shore.
30:28Mr. Samuel.
30:30Yes, Captain.
30:31You will take charge of these Indian curiosities which may be useful for trading in other islands.
30:36Yes, sir.
30:37One moment, sir. These things were given me as gifts for members of my family in England.
30:41Mr. Samuel, who heard my orders?
30:43Your bundle, Mr. Christian. Captain's orders.
30:45Very well, then. Take it.
30:47Mr. Christian, you still have something in your hand.
30:50Come, let me see what it is.
30:55A pair of pearls. They appear to be remarkably fine stones.
30:59Yes, sir.
31:00Give them to Mr. Samuel, please.
31:02Black pearls are highly prized in the friendly islands where we shall do some trading.
31:07Surely, sir, you won't take these.
31:09They were given to me by... by a very close friend.
31:12Hand them over to Mr. Samuel!
31:14Captain Bly, I've obeyed every order you've given me.
31:17And some of them with the utmost distaste.
31:19But this I refuse.
31:21I intend to keep this gift, sir, as long as I live.
31:25Very well, Mr. Christian.
31:28I accept your refusal.
31:31And I shall remember it.
31:38On the 4th of April, 1788,
31:41the bounty with her cargo of red fruit trees set sail from Tahiti.
31:46All went quietly enough until the evening of April 14.
31:51That morning, we left the island of Namuka in the friendly archipelago
31:55where we did our usual trading with the natives.
31:58A great many coconuts had been brought aboard
32:01and piled up on the quarterdeck between the guns under the captain's eye.
32:05At about noon, some of the coconuts were found to be missing.
32:12Mr. Morrison.
32:13Aye, sir.
32:14Are all the officers assembled on deck?
32:16Aye, sir.
32:24Gentlemen, attention.
32:27I regret to inform you that several coconuts have been stolen.
32:30I expect you to help me find the culprits.
32:33Well, speak up.
32:35Speak up!
32:37Some of you must know the guilty party.
32:41Mr. Christian, step forward, please.
32:44I wish to know the exact number of coconuts you purchased for your own use, Mr. Christian.
32:48I really don't know, sir.
32:49Oh, you don't?
32:50I hope you don't think me so mean as to steal yours.
32:52Yes, I do think so.
32:54You must have stolen some of mine. You'd be able to give a better account of your own.
32:58You may be officers, but you're rascals and thieves.
33:01The lot of you!
33:03I'll break the spirit of every man of you.
33:05You'll wish you'd never seen me before we reached the Indies.
33:07Mr. Samuel!
33:08Yes, sir.
33:09You'll stop the officers' grog and defer their orders.
33:11And instead of a pound of yams per man, you'll issue half a pound to all the messes.
33:15Understand?
33:16Yes, sir.
33:17And by heaven, I'll reduce you to a quarter of a pound if I find anything else missing.
33:20Make you crawl on your bellies for that!
33:30It was feverish hot below deck that night.
33:33And there was an uneasy stirring in the folks there.
33:36I couldn't sleep and went up on deck.
33:38It was then about one o'clock.
33:40And with the exception of the watch, there was no one on deck but Tinkler,
33:43curled up asleep under one of the guns.
33:46Mr. Norton, the watch, was standing at the rail on the opposite side of the deck.
33:51I could make out his form standing in starlight.
33:54Someone appeared at the aft ladderway.
33:57Who's that?
33:58Oh, it's you, Byron.
33:59Oh. Hello, Mr. Christian.
34:01Have you seen Captain Blydenite?
34:03Did you know that he invited me to sup with him?
34:05Why?
34:06Can you tell me that after spitting at me, wiping his feet on me,
34:10he sent Samuel to ask me to his table?
34:12He didn't go?
34:13After what happened, I should say not.
34:15Maybe he's got a conscience, Christian.
34:17His invitation might have been a way of letting you know he was sorry.
34:20I might have believed that once, but not now.
34:22Byron, we're in his power, officers and men alike.
34:25He considers us so many dogs to be kicked or fondled as he pleases.
34:29There can be no relief, none, not till we reach England.
34:32Heaven knows when that'll be.
34:35Heaven knows if I can stand it till then.
34:37Heaven knows if the men can stand it.
34:40Byron.
34:41Yes, Christian?
34:42There's something I wish you could do for me.
34:45On a voyage like this, one never knows what may happen.
34:49If for any reason I should fail to reach home,
34:52I'd like you to see my people in Cumberland.
34:55That be too much trouble for you?
34:57Not at all, Mr. Christian.
34:58Just before I joined the ship,
35:00my father asked that I make such an arrangement with someone on board.
35:04In case anything should happen,
35:05he said that it would be a comfort to him to talk with one of my friends.
35:09You can count on me, sir.
35:10Good.
35:11That's settled, then.
35:15Well, Mr. Christian.
35:17You're up late.
35:18Yes, sir.
35:19And you, Mr. Byron.
35:21Can't you sleep?
35:22It's very warm below, sir.
35:24I've noticed it.
35:25A true sailor can sleep in an oven if the case requires.
35:29Or on a cake of ice.
35:32Good night, Mr. Byron.
35:34Good night, Mr. Christian.
35:54Smith.
35:56Wake up.
35:57Wake up.
35:58There's three bells.
35:59Berkett.
36:00Where's the other lads?
36:01Thompson's gone to the arms chest.
36:03Come with me and be quick about it.
36:05Aye, that and I will.
36:06Coleman.
36:07Oh, Coleman.
36:08Huh?
36:09What do you want, Thompson?
36:10The key to the gun locker.
36:11Hurry, man.
36:12It's hanging above the hatch.
36:13Thompson.
36:14Is that you?
36:15Aye, Berkett.
36:16What did you get, man?
36:17Ten muskets and a brace of pistols.
36:18Pass them around, mate.
36:19Smith.
36:20Aye, I'll take one.
36:21Quintle.
36:22Aye, give me one with a bayonet.
36:24Ellison.
36:25Thanks.
36:26Churchill.
36:27Aye, I'm with you.
36:28Where's the rest of the lads, Berkett?
36:30In the ab deck.
36:31They're seeing Mr. Christian.
36:32Aye.
36:33We need Christian, we do.
36:34He's the man that'll rid us of that swine.
36:36Aye.
36:37Christian.
36:46Mr. Byron.
36:47Mr. Byron, get up.
36:48Yes.
36:49Yes.
36:50Put on your clothes.
36:51There's no time about it.
36:52What is it?
36:53Have we been attacked?
36:54Have we been attacked?
36:55Byron's a prisoner.
36:56What?
36:57Berkett, are you mad?
36:58Have you any idea what you're doing?
36:59We know what we're doing.
37:00Guy's got all this on himself.
37:01Now, by heaven, we'll make him suffer.
37:02We're going to shoot the dog.
37:03Don't you tie any of your young gentleman's ideas on us, or we'll murder some more of
37:06you.
37:07Seize him up, Berkett.
37:08They're not to be trusted.
37:09Hold your tongue.
37:10Mind the gun locker.
37:11Come, gentlemen, hurry me your clothes.
37:12Quintle.
37:13Yes, Berkett.
37:14Stand fast to that door there.
37:15No one's to come forward without my orders.
37:16You understand?
37:17Aye.
37:18Come on, boys.
37:19On deck with him.
37:20Berkett.
37:21Christian.
37:22Byron.
37:24Captain Bly.
37:25Don't overstep.
37:26Isn't there a loyal man among you?
37:28Will you hold your tongue, Mr. Bly?
37:30Or shall I shove this bannet into your ribs?
37:33Go ahead, Christian.
37:35Murder me.
37:36Go on ahead.
37:37I'm master of this ship now, Mr. Bly.
37:39And by heaven, I'll stand no more of your abuse.
37:41Christian, you traitor.
37:42I'll see you hung.
37:43I'll have you flogged.
37:44Hold your tongue or you're dead to us.
37:46Let him have it.
37:48Quiet.
37:49Quiet, the lot of you.
37:52I'll give the orders on this ship.
37:54Berkett, get the other officers on deck.
37:56They're pitching him up, sir.
37:57Christian.
37:58Mr. Christian, think what you do.
37:59Release me.
38:00Lay aside your arms.
38:01Let's be friends again, Mr. Christian.
38:02Mr. Christian, I give you my word that nothing more should be said of this matter.
38:06Your word is of no value, Captain Bly.
38:09What do you mean to do with me?
38:11Shoot you, you swine.
38:12Seize him up at the gratings, Mr. Christian.
38:14Give us a chance at him with the ladders.
38:16Silence.
38:17Silence.
38:18Silence.
38:19Silence.
38:21We'll give you justice, Mr. Bly.
38:23Just more than you've ever given us.
38:25What's your plan, Mr. Christian?
38:26You have a right to know.
38:27Aye, that we have.
38:28Mind what you're about, Thompson.
38:29I'm master of this ship.
38:30You're a mutinous swine.
38:31That's what you are, Christian.
38:33They'll never listen to you.
38:34They're...
38:37Maybe that'll teach you to hold your tongue.
38:38Mr. Christian.
38:39Stand back, Brian.
38:40Think what you're doing, Christian.
38:41This is my affair.
38:42Out the steps, right here.
38:43Friar, Purcell.
38:44Hey.
38:45The one on that side of the deck with Byam and Morrison.
38:46Mr. Christian, are you in this?
38:48Yes, Mr. Friar.
38:49I've taken the ship.
38:50None of you will be hurt unless you resist.
38:52What are you going to do with Captain Bly?
38:54Kill me!
38:55That's what the villain's going to do.
38:56Kill me!
38:57No, Mr. Bly.
38:58No, no.
38:59I'm not going to kill you.
39:00I'm going to put you adrift in the longboat.
39:02Longboat?
39:03That's right.
39:04Turn him aground.
39:05Let me loose in that rotten little boat, will you,
39:063,000 miles from land?
39:08What else is that but murder?
39:10It's giving you a chance, Mr. Bly.
39:12It's more than you'd give me.
39:14Mr. Mills.
39:15Aye, Mr. Christian.
39:16May the launch be lively.
39:17Aye, aye, sir.
39:19Now, gentlemen, you have your choice.
39:22The rest of the men who haven't joined us,
39:24you stay on ship with me or you go with Bly.
39:27I give you warning.
39:28Come with me and I'll see you hung.
39:30I'll stay.
39:32I'm with you, Mr. Christian.
39:34Stand on the side.
39:35I'm going with the captain.
39:36Not me.
39:37Over here, then.
39:39Mr. Friar.
39:40Mr. Christian.
39:41Listen to reason.
39:42One more time, Mr. Friar.
39:43Answer my question.
39:44I'm simply for you the wrongs you've suffered,
39:46but none whatever for what you're doing now.
39:47I have not asked for your sympathy, Mr. Friar.
39:50Mr. Byam, what's your decision?
39:53Mr. Byam.
39:55I shall go with Captain Bly.
39:56Very well.
39:57Over here, then.
39:58That side.
40:00Purcell.
40:01No matter what I think of Mr. Bly,
40:03I know my duty as an officer.
40:04Mr. Purcell, I shall remember that.
40:06All that are going, Mr. Bly, ready to man the launch?
40:08She's ready to lower, sir.
40:10In the boat, men.
40:11First, Mr. Bly.
40:12I'll never leave my ship of my free will.
40:14Very well.
40:15Very well.
40:17Carry him, men.
40:19Stand back.
40:20Stand back, gentlemen.
40:22Birkett.
40:23Keep your musket ready if anyone makes a move.
40:25That's it.
40:27Into the boat, men.
40:31Now, the rest of you.
40:32Friar, Purcell, Nelson.
40:33All of you that are going, keep moving.
40:35Allison, dump in the supplies.
40:37In you get.
40:38We can't take any more.
40:39Christian, we can't take any more.
40:41Don't send in any more.
40:42She's overloaded, Christian.
40:43She's overloaded with swamp.
40:44No more men.
40:45Don't swamp the boat, men.
40:46I'll see that justice is done here.
40:49Very well.
40:50Back the rest of you.
40:51Byam, get back.
40:52Yes, Mr. Christian.
40:53Lower away, men.
40:54Aye, sir.
40:55Lower away.
40:57One more chance, Christian.
41:02One more chance to surrender.
41:04Too late for that now, Mr. Bly.
41:06You'll pay for this.
41:08Every one of you, you'll pay.
41:10Give us some cutlasses at least, Christian.
41:12Some maps.
41:13And throwdowns of cutlasses.
41:14Aye, sir.
41:17Cowards.
41:18I'll eat all the arms you'll give us.
41:20You'll get a belly full of lead.
41:21There are the turtles and the swivels on him.
41:23Give him a whip of grief.
41:24I'll make that beware.
41:25Away from that gun, Quiddle.
41:26I'll put you in irons.
41:28Cast off there below.
41:29You scoundrels.
41:31Murderers.
41:32Traitors.
41:34I'll have vengeance on you.
41:37I'll see you swinging a yardarm before two years have passed.
41:42If I have to go to the end of the earth to get you.
41:55The launch was soon a hundred yards from the ship.
41:58With Bly and eighteen men crowded aboard.
42:02There was no chance of my joining them.
42:05Norrie's breeze freshened and the bounty began to gather away.
42:09Under Christian's command, we put back to Tahiti.
42:12There we parted.
42:15It was his intention to turn us back forever on civilization.
42:19And settle in some remote island in the South Seas.
42:23The rest of us well determined to return to England.
42:27With him aboard the bounty went eight members of the crew.
42:31Eight native women.
42:33And Tahani, his wife.
42:37The last I saw of the bounty, she was standing off the shore of Tahiti.
42:40With all sails set.
42:43Heading north into uncharted waters.
42:46Where the light easterly breeze had been.
42:53Prisoners.
42:54Fanfolk.
42:56Roger Bam.
42:58Here, sir.
42:59James Morrison.
43:01Here, sir.
43:02William Muspratt.
43:03Here, sir.
43:04Thomas Burkitt.
43:05Here, sir.
43:07John Mills.
43:08Here, sir.
43:09Thomas Ellison.
43:10Here, sir.
43:12Do any of the accused have anything further to say in your defense?
43:17No, my lord.
43:19No, my lord.
43:20No, my lord.
43:22No, my lord.
43:23No, my lord.
43:24Having heard the evidence produced in support of the charges made against you.
43:29And having maturely and deliberately weighed the whole of the evidence.
43:33This court is of the opinion that the charges have been proved against you.
43:38It doth therefore judge that you shall suffer death by being hanged by the neck.
43:44On board any of his majesty's ships of war.
43:47Not later than one month from this date.
43:50And at such a time and such a place.
43:53As the commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain and Ireland.
43:58Shall, in writing, under their hands direct.
44:07Our story tonight is the true account of an adventure at sea.
44:23It is not fiction.
44:25It is history.
44:27And history seldom accommodates us with a happy ending.
44:31The boundaries of fact reach farther than the boundaries of romance.
44:37And even when the last of the principles of any action have died.
44:42It cannot surely be said that any human event has ended.
44:47In the sense that a story ends.
44:49If our hero tonight was Captain Bly.
44:52Then our story concludes with the fulfillment of his promise.
44:56For Captain Bly sailing without charts or instruments.
45:00Against thirst and hunger, against heat and cold.
45:03After 41 perilous days on the open sea.
45:07Brought the launch of the bounty with its crew of 19 souls into the Dutch port of Timor.
45:123618 miles.
45:15From where they had been set adrift.
45:18He kept his word.
45:20Returned to England.
45:22Brought seven of the mutineers to trial and saw them convicted to treason.
45:27And condemned to death.
45:29If our hero was Roger Byam.
45:31Then the story still has a happy ending.
45:35For in spite of Captain Bly and quite in keeping with the best traditions of melodrama.
45:40He was reprieved from hanging at the 11th hour.
45:43And lived to marry a girl and to become a captain in the British Navy.
45:48As to Mr. Christian.
45:51The end of his story has not been written.
45:54It has been told that with his wife Tahani and a few of the mutineers.
45:58He sailed the bounty far off the trade lanes.
46:01To an island they called Pitcairn.
46:05They may not have lived happily ever after.
46:09But for almost 150 years their descendants have continued in existence.
46:14Free from the bondage and misery against which Fletcher Christian rebelled.
46:18Fletcher Christian rebelled.
46:26In a moment or so Orson Welles will return to the microphone with his guest of the evening.
46:31Mrs. Dorothy Hall.
46:33A person who has had direct contact with the descendants of the mutineers.
46:36And who has been recently and dramatically associated with life on Pitcairn Island.
46:41While we are waiting for them.
46:43Let me remind you of something I was talking about a little while ago.
46:46Of the lavish emphasis on chicken in Campbell's chicken soup.
46:51Actually all the good meat of fine government certified chickens goes into the making.
46:56The broth bubbles slowly and softly in shining kettles.
47:00Until it takes on a golden glint.
47:02And the flavor of chicken is rich in every drop.
47:05Pieces of chicken meat cooked deliciously tender.
47:08Go into the soup too along with snowy rice.
47:11Every woman knows that the merit of a chicken soup depends on the amount of chicken used in making it.
47:17And since that is so.
47:19Then as surely as you like chicken.
47:21You'll like Campbell's chicken soup.
47:23You'll like it for lunch.
47:25For supper.
47:27For family meals whenever the idea of chicken sounds good.
47:30Why not put Campbell's chicken soup on tomorrow's shopping list.
47:33And have it this very weekend.
47:37And now Orson Welles.
47:41Ladies and gentlemen.
47:43The last or at least the latest chapter in the strange story of the mutiny on the bounty.
47:48We're going to tell you tonight.
47:50Before this broadcast is over.
47:52It was written only last summer.
47:55And only a few miles from this studio.
48:11Hack is a taxi cab.
48:13It is also what you call a writer if you're mad at him.
48:15Quack is what Donald Duck says.
48:18And what you should never call a doctor.
48:20Ham is the most distinguished reference you can make to an amateur radio operator.
48:26But there are two kinds of hams.
48:28And smile when you call a radio actor a ham.
48:30Say ham to Mrs. Dorothy Hall however and she'll just smile.
48:34I'd like to make this quite clear before I go on.
48:37When you say radio ham to me it is either dramatic criticism or fighting words.
48:42Depending on how big you are.
48:44But okay around Mrs. Hall because ham is just a pleasant reminder in the queer vernacular of her own people.
48:50That she has passed tests A and B of the Federal Communications Commission.
48:54And belongs to the elect among amateur radio operators of the world.
48:58Mrs. Hall's kind of ham pioneered radio.
49:01Mrs. Hall's kind of ham stays up late and gets up early.
49:03Eats irregularly, rescues flood victims.
49:07And talks like an E. Phillips Oppenheim spy into an H.G. Wells machine.
49:11Thinking nothing of such phrases as Q.R.M., Q.C., Q.R.T., and Q.S.L.
49:17The exact meaning of which I am not entirely certain.
49:20Eighty-eight however means love and kisses.
49:23This I have committed to memory in several languages.
49:26Eighty-eight.
49:28Y-1-5-K-G is what Mrs. Hall assures me she calls His Royal Highness Crown Prince Faisal Gossel of Iraq.
49:36I said Crown Prince Faisal Gossel of Iraq.
49:39And there are a lot of other hams Mrs. Hall's kind.
49:42I mean there is W-5-D-E-W for example who is married the dewdrop of Texas.
49:47And the mother of four children.
49:49There is Howard Hughes. There is Wilmer Allison the tennis star.
49:52There is Dr. James Hard the John D. Rockefeller of Mexico.
49:55Who has invested $150,000 in amateur radio.
49:58This is the son of Herbert Hoover too.
50:01And Andy Sinella the band leader and about 85,000 others.
50:05Including Amos of our own Campbell Soups, Amos and Andy.
50:08I don't know what makes a ham.
50:10Mrs. Hall's kind I mean.
50:12But I do know that it's very lucky for an awful lot of people that hams do exist.
50:16And 214 of those lucky people are especially lucky and especially grateful to Mrs. Hall.
50:22They are the 214 great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren and great-great-great-grandchildren of the crew of the HMS Bounty.
50:30Remember the headlines?
50:32Pit-Cairn Islanders face starvation.
50:34Bounty survivors isolated by typhoid rumor.
50:37Queen's Woman rallies British to aid survivors.
50:40Radio amateur acts to save starving inhabitants.
50:44Well it was only last summer and only last summer it was that the rumors of a dangerous epidemic forced the little island into a tragic quarantine that threatened to erupt.
50:52And erase all life from Pit-Cairn.
50:55That same Pit-Cairn, that same paradise that Mr. Christian and the rest of them founded 150 years ago in tonight's story.
51:05What happened was this.
51:07Stories of a contagious disease on Pit-Cairn Island spread faster than any disease through the islands.
51:13From Panama to Tahiti, from Samoa to New Zealand and boats all of them from the biggest traders to the littlest tramps kept off.
51:19The harbor was closed.
51:20Pit-Cairn Islanders watched them, boats with food and most vital with medical supplies, sail past them almost within shouting distance and away into the sky.
51:30So it was that slow death and death by torture faced a community in the very presence of civilization.
51:38Faced a people whose ancestors had known this torment and this kind of death.
51:43And here's how another chapter was written in the saga of the Bounty.
51:48Andrew Young, descendant of midshipman Edward Young, latitude 25 minutes, 4 seconds south, longitude 130 minutes, 6 seconds west, fighting time, fighting the ebbing power of his radio transmitter,
52:00found an old friend in the ether whom he knew well and whom he had never seen 7,740 miles away.
52:07A colleague in the great good fellowship of radio hands.
52:12Found and gave the word to Mrs. Dorothy Hall, 18618 Williamson Avenue, Springfield Gardens, Queens, Long Island, New York.
52:21And here she is. Mrs. Dorothy Hall who picked up the message and gave it to the world.
52:26I'd like you to meet Mrs. Hall.
52:28Good evening ladies and gentlemen.
52:30Mrs. Hall, will you please read the entry which you made in your log on July 19th of last year?
52:34Certainly, Mr. Wells. Here it is.
52:374.38 a.m. While in contact with VR6AY, he requested that I contact the British Council that no ships had stopped for trading since May 25th and they needed food and medical supplies.
52:52Mrs. Hall, when did help finally reach the islanders?
52:55Just nine days after I received the message.
52:59They must be tremendously grateful for what you've done for them.
53:01Well, they're very nice people.
53:03I think you're understating the situation, Mrs. Hall.
53:06I must tell you that since Mrs. Hall rescued Pitcairn Island, I found out from other sources she's become what amounts to its unofficial council general, purchasing agent, advisor and guardian angel.
53:18Well, Mr. Wells, that's quite a title.
53:21Tell us, Mrs. Hall. What do you think is the outlook for the islanders?
53:24I'm afraid not so very encouraging.
53:26They are entirely cut off from regular professional medical attention, whereas they recovered from this epidemic, which incidentally has never been diagnosed.
53:37It is more than possible, particularly with the threat of cholera, that someday a ship will pull into the harbor and find no one alive.
53:46Mrs. Hall, certainly something should be done about this.
53:49The people at Pitcairn Island need a doctor. They need someone to tell them what they've got when they're sick and someone to cure them when they've got it.
53:54They need at least the simplest medical supplies.
53:59I don't know what can be done, but maybe somebody somewhere who's listening to this will know the answer. Let's hope so.
54:05And now before wishing you good night, Mrs. Hall, and thanking you for visiting us at the Campbell Playhouse, I'd like our listeners to hear what I found in your log when I visited your home the other day.
54:14It's your most recent entry regarding the island. It's just a sentence, but I think it's very eloquent.
54:19It's from the Chief Magistrate of Pitcairn Island to Mrs. Dorothy Hall.
54:25Quote, you do what is for our good. It's okay with me. Signed, Richard Edward Christian.
54:35And now, ladies and gentlemen, just before I lose my voice and just before we say good night, just a minute of next week's story. A preview is what the movies call it. Music, if you please, Professor.
54:56When Mr. Fippenny took the mules out of the traces to lead them down to the stream to drink, he noticed that his wife continued sitting on the spring seat staring ahead of her, and that Addie, now 10 years old, remained in the wagon under the canvas.
55:18When he came back, they were as before.
55:21Uh, Josephine, are you feeling all right?
55:25Fine.
55:27Don't you like this camping place?
55:29As well as any camping place.
55:32Well, what about supper?
55:34I don't plan to cook any more suppers in this fine, free out of doors.
55:39Well, how come?
55:40Tomorrow, Addie and I is going back to some town to live or die. Some town like Natchez.
55:48And leave me?
55:50We two are going back to that town to live or die.
55:54Perhaps Mr. Fippenny's poker playing, in spite of his wife's frequent corrosive remarks about it, had given him some helpful training. At any rate, Mr. Fippenny leaned down and began pulling at Brickstill's long ears.
56:07Brickstill, we don't want to go to town, we do. We're ashamed of the old wagon.
56:14Who we anyhow? Why, we're the chicken wagon family and ain't got no home except in only such a place.
56:20Yes, uh, Brickstill, we can't be chicken wagon people no more. It's disgraceful. We're ashamed. We're going to town, we are, Brickstill.
56:29Hey, we're going to town.
56:31And by dogs, we're going to the biggest downtown in the world. We're on our way to New York City.
56:40Mrs. Fippenny screamed.
56:52Ladies and gentlemen, what you've just heard comes about at the beginning of next week's broadcast and the voice you heard telling you the story.
57:01Because he happened to visit the Campbell Playhouse in this studio tonight, and because he was nice enough to do this for us,
57:09was the voice of America's finest actor, Mr. Burgess Meredith, who is the star of next Friday's story,
57:16which is a queer story, a funny story, a very, very good story, and a very, very human story, called The Chicken Wagon Family.
57:24Until then, until The Chicken Wagon Family, Burgess Meredith, who is next week's star, my sponsor and I, and all of us on the Campbell Playhouse remain obediently yours.
57:54In tonight's broadcast of Mutiny on the Bounty, Captain Bly was played by Orson Welles.
58:14Roger Byam was played by Carl Frank.
58:17Joseph Cotton was Fletcher Christian.
58:19Thomas Burkett was played by Ray Collins.
58:21Mr. Fryer by Frank Reddick.
58:23Morrison by Myron McCormick.
58:25Edgar Barrier was Purcell.
58:27Richard Wilson was Thompson.
58:29William Allen was Samuel.
58:31And Memo Holt was Tahani.
58:33Don't fail to listen in next Friday night when Orson Welles brings to the Campbell Playhouse Burgess Meredith
58:40in that lovable, laughable bestseller of a dozen years ago, The Chicken Wagon Family.
58:51Mrs. Ernest Chappell saying goodnight on behalf of the makers of Campbell Soups.
59:05This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.