What happens
Ex-army pilot Monk Slavin takes a job flying cargo out of Calcutta and is drawn into a dangerous scheme. Offered ten thousand dollars to fly into China, he agrees, but his mechanic Jafar, a street performer who plays a flute, grows hostile toward him. Slavin is soon caught between his employers' plans and a menace that grows stranger each night. The episode is from the series Escape, first broadcast on June 16, 1950, and the lead actor is Charles McGraw.
Calcutta, Kathmandu and the surrounding mountains of India and Tibet
Characters: Monk Slavin, Grant, Jafar, Karkanov, Leontovich
Listen for: The flute music that Jafar plays and the sound of the radio transmissions between Slavin and the base.
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.