"It was bitter cold up there in the uplands and foothills of the Pyrenees 20,000 years ago. The great sheet of glacial ice had slid down from the polar icecap, only the mountain peaks rose above it."
The titular "Oldest Man in the World" is a reference to prehistoric man, which seemed to be becoming a bigger topics in those days since the 1940 discovery of the Lascaux cave paintings and of Cro-Magnon man in the previous century, also in France. That's where Wyllis Cooper's Quiet, Please story begins, with a tale of three people who went climbing in the mountains and the blackhearted murder schemes they brought with them.
"The Oldest Man in the World" was originally broadcast May 22, 1949. You can listen to the episode at Quiet, Please.org.
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