Broadcast: 1st May 1934

Starring: Carlton KaDell, James Pierce

Added: Mar 01 2004

“The following inaugural chapter of the new Tarzan radio series brings to radio and to Tarzans many thousands of friends an entirely new story of strange and thrilling adventure entitled Tarzan & The Diamond of Asher.”

Jane Porter, her father Samuel T Philander and Cecil Clayton have left Africa. Clayton subsequently has confessed that he is not the true Lord Greystoke and has died aboard ship. And so Tarzan of the apes’ mighty hunter lord of the jungle has come in to his name and title, John Clayton Lord of Greystoke. Tarzan and his friend Paul D'Arnot French naval lieutenant of the African patrol service have travelled up the coast to Luango a French African port where D'Arnot is awaiting a ship to take him back to France. Tonight we find the two friends at the close of dinner in the grill of the Metroplole Hotel discussing future plans…