What happens
Roy Bartlett, a young farmer newly arrived in New York from Montana, meets a friendly woman at the airport terminal who takes him for a drink and then leads him to a bank. Roy is left with the money he had brought, which is taken, and he later resolves to become a policeman and find the woman, who goes by Diana. The Exploring Tomorrow series presents this 1957 episode, first aired on December 18, 1957, in a story about a stranger in a large city and the wish to help people who have gone wrong.
New York City, in a future where a central computer runs the city and assigns jobs to residents
Characters: Roy Bartlett, Diana Lawson
Listen for: The conversation in the airport terminal bar where Roy first meets Diana
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.