What happens
Captain Harding commands a ship carrying four hundred convicts from London to Australia, where a colony has bought them as labor. Aboard is the dangerous prisoner Jonathan Abi, whom the captain's mate Finch openly despises. As the voyage wears on, hidden knives appear among the prisoners, and men are murdered in the hold. Escape is an episode of the radio series Escape, first broadcast on April 5, 1953. The story is adapted from a work by Western Martyr, with Ben Wright in the cast.
A sailing ship carrying convicts from London toward Australia in the nineteenth century, including the crowded prisoners' hold.
Characters: Captain Harding, Finch, Jonathan Abi, Wilkes
Listen for: Listen for the tense bargain between the captain and Abi, and for the sounds of the ship in fog as the anchor is dropped.
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.