What happens
Ward, an American oil man returning home from Turkey, boards the Taurus Express at Istanbul. Near his compartment he meets a young woman named Mary, who claims to be a Macedonian refugee, and an American officer, Tom Hatfield, who is carrying a briefcase of dispatches. Several passengers have their own stories, and Ward begins to suspect that some of them are not what they seem. The episode is part of the Escape series and was first broadcast nationally on January 28, 1948.
The Taurus Express, travelling through Turkey from Istanbul toward the Syrian border during the Second World War
Characters: Ward, Mary, Tom Hatfield, Mr. Chinyara, Mr. Drikar, Mr. Kevorkian
Listen for: Ward's account of the briefcase, the passengers' stories, and the border police's arrival at Adana
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.