Donovan’s Brain

Suspense - Radio’s Outstanding Theater of Thrills · Mar 30, 2026 · 59m

Originally Aired: February 7, 1948

Suspense #283, "Donovan's Brain," Dr. Patrick Corey becomes dangerously consumed by his obsessive experiments to keep brain tissue alive outside the body. Working tirelessly in his laboratory, Patrick has successfully sustained a monkey's brain in a jar using a sophisticated circulation system, demonstrating that it can still react and possibly think independently of its host body. His wife Janet and son David, a medical student, grow increasingly alarmed by his fanatical devotion to work that seems to violate the natural order. Dr. Schrott, a colleague…