What happens
Guy Haynes, a tennis player and aide to a Senator, meets Bruno Anthony, a charming stranger, on a train from Washington. Bruno proposes a theory of swapping murders between strangers who have no link to each other. Guy is trapped in an unhappy marriage to Miriam, who refuses to grant him a divorce, and he is drawn to Senator Morton's daughter, Anne. This Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of Strangers on a Train, broadcast on April 12, 1954, stars Robert Cummings, Dana Andrews and Virginia Mayo, based on the Alfred Hitchcock film.
Washington DC, a train to Metcalf and New York, and the Morton family home in Washington.
Characters: Guy Haynes, Bruno Anthony, Miriam, Anne Morton, Senator Morton, Barbara, Captain Shirley, Hennessy
Listen for: Bruno's proposal on the train that strangers should swap murders, and Guy's reaction to it.
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.