What happens
Robert Sharkey, a veteran intelligence officer, leads Group 77, a unit of American volunteer agents trained for dangerous work behind enemy lines during the Second World War. Charles Gibson organizes the secret service. One agent, William O'Connell, is suspected of being a German spy, and Sharkey sends him on an assignment to observe a torpedo detonator and then on a deception aimed at feeding false invasion information to the enemy. The episode is part of the Lux Radio Theatre series, first broadcast on October 20, 1947, with Robert Montgomery as Sharkey and Lloyd Nolan as Gibson. Montgomery, Nolan, Richard Conte and Vanessa Brown are the starring cast of this production.
Washington, D.C. area and London during the Second World War, with later scenes in occupied France, including the coastal port city of Lahab.
Characters: Robert Sharkey, Charles Gibson, William O'Connell, Jeff Lasseter, Suzanne de Beaumont, George T. Simpson, Marcel Duquois, Colonel Consul
Listen for: Listen for the training sequences where agents identify sounds, and the scene where Sharkey explains the deception plan to Lasseter and O'Connell.
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.