What happens
Officer Bradell aboard the ocean liner San Pedro, sailing south from Hoboken toward Buenos Aires, grows uneasy when a strange passenger, Dr. Percival, comes aboard to see the captain. The ship develops a worsening port list, and the captain's health is in question. Bradell becomes curious about a cabin that will not open, while passenger Marily follows him and presses him with unsettling remarks. Escape is a half-hour radio anthology series, and this episode aired on August 22, 1948. Its adaptation is credited to Les Crutchfield from a story by James Gould Cousins, with John Dehner and Charlotte Lawrence among the cast.
Aboard the passenger liner SS San Pedro in the Atlantic, sailing south out of Hoboken toward Buenos Aires
Characters: Bradell, Marily, Dr. Percival, Captain, Mr. Briscoe, Mr. Riddell, Driscoll, Morris
Listen for: The strange port list that grows worse, the jammed door of number seven cabin, and Marily's remarks about Dr. Percival
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.