What happens
Harry Lime returns to New York after hearing that an old enemy, Governor James Hadley, is in trouble. Hadley, who is up for re-election, has been blackmailed with compromising photographs by a crime boss named Kato. Hadley hires Lime to recover the negatives, and Lime, sensing a chance to profit, agrees and makes contact with Kato. The episode follows Lime's dealings with Hadley's secretary, Nora Payton, and with Kato's associates as the bargaining grows tense. The episode is one of the fictional adventures of Harry Lime from the series The Lives of Harry Lime, first broadcast on August 17, 1951.
New York City and the state capital, 1951
Characters: Harry Lime, Governor James Hadley, Nora Payton, Kato, Troubis
Listen for: Lime's negotiations with Kato and Hadley and the tense exchange at the governor's office
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.