What happens
Captain Steel commands the American warship Panther, sent into Caribbean waters with orders not to attack first, to find a French privateer, the Harpy, that has been sinking merchant ships. A French lieutenant boards the Panther and makes threats, and Steel refuses to yield. He then meets Captain Matthews and his daughter Jennifer aboard the merchantman Salem, which the French have also attacked. Steel and Matthews devise a plan to lure the Harpy into a trap. Escape is a half-hour adventure drama on CBS Radio, broadcast on June 14, 1953, written and directed by Anthony Ellis and starring William Conrad as Captain Steel.
The Caribbean Sea and the Bahamas, during a naval war between England and France, around the late 1700s.
Characters: Captain Steel, Lieutenant McCrake, Duncan, Captain Matthews, Jennifer Matthews, Mr. Quinn, Lieutenant Samson, Jonathan
Listen for: The plan Captain Steel proposes to Captain Matthews, and Jennifer's disguise aboard the Salem.
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.