What happens
Lena Aldridge, a respectable young Englishwoman, meets the charming and penniless Johnny Aysgarth on a windy hilltop and quickly falls in love with him. Their whirlwind courtship leads to a hasty marriage, and Lena soon discovers that Johnny's extravagant tastes are funded by debts he has never mentioned. Lena's family and friends grow uneasy as small mysteries accumulate around her husband. The Lux Radio Theatre presents this adaptation of the RKO picture Suspicion, starring William Powell and Olivia de Havilland, on September 18, 1944. The story is told in the first part of the drama, which opens with the couple's first meeting and their marriage.
England, in the countryside and in town, during the 1930s.
Characters: Johnny Aysgarth, Lena, Beaky, Aunt Isabel, Stanley, Vicki Threak, Captain Melbeck
Listen for: Lena's growing doubts about Johnny's money and the way he avoids explaining where it comes from.
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.