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Gunsmoke - Volume 1
- Audition Program & Billy the Kid
- Narrated by: William Conrad
- Length: 59 mins
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Publisher's summary
The mythic West. Sprawling, violent, beautiful.
The expansion of Americans into this vast landscape was America’s very own Iliad, its own Odyssey.
These legendary times were immortalised in screen and print down the decades, but perhaps its greatest canvas was the radio waves.
And Gunsmoke was perhaps the best of its breed.
Now good versus bad, the epic legend of the American West is back on the airwaves.
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