With The 43rd Marines (Aired April 17, 1953)
Based on the novels by C. S. Forester. From 1952-1953
Broadcast 1952; Transcribed in England for the BBC; aired in U.S. on CBS, then again on ABC in 1954 and Mutual in 1957. Starring Michael Redgrave as Horatio Hornblower. a captain in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic era. The radio series was based on twelve Horatio Hornblower novels written by C.S. Forester. These novels were, and still are, well liked due to their realistic tone and histori...
Frank O'Connor was an Irish author of the mid-twentieth century; he composed many short stories, including this humorous tale about his first confession. I found it in "A Celestial Omnibus: Short Fiction on Faith," which is a thoughtfully edited collection of stories, named after a famous E.M. Forester story in which a boy takes a bus to Heaven.