Radio Mystery Theater Three Women 0023

Original Airdate: January 28, 1974

Episode 0023 "Three Women"

Original Story by Elspeth Eric Directed by Himan Brown Host: E.G. Marshall

I have a story for you about a writer, a writer of books. We all know what it is to read a book. We all read. Sometimes to learn, sometimes to pass the time, sometimes to experience a life unrelated to our own, and sometimes to surrender ourselves to the fantasies of a person we have never met and will never meet. But what is it to write a book? Ah? That's another thing altogether. But what difference does it make? All the difference in the world.

What is a book? Two, three, four hundred pages of words lying side by side in rows. That's all. Words we all know. Many of them we use. Nothing mysterious about the words themselves. But they are not thrown helter -skelter on the pages, are they? No, they lie there in a certain order, each one following on the one before. And who prescribed that order? Who put this word here and that word there? A writer. And this is the story of a writer named Stephen Lake and the book he wrote.

Starring: Ruth Ford, George Petrie, Elspeth Eric, Joan Loring, Roger DeKoven