What happens
Graham, an English engineer working for an armaments firm, is attacked by a gunman in his Istanbul hotel room. Turkish secret police Colonel Hakki arranges for him to leave Turkey by ship for Athens. On board, Graham recognizes the would-be assassin, a Romanian, and realizes that the other passengers may also be threats. Escape presents Journey Into Fear, adapted from the novel by Eric Ambler, with Ben Wright starring as Graham. The episode is from the Escape series and aired on November 19, 1950.
Istanbul, Turkey, and aboard a passenger ship bound for Athens
Characters: Graham, Colonel Hakki, Copakian, Mati, Kovetli, Haller, Mavrapoulos, Banat
Listen for: The tense shipboard sequence in which Graham searches for his missing gun and learns that his fellow passengers are watching him
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.