What happens
Ken Thurston, a man called X, is drawn into a plot linked to the Pan-American Conference in Bogota. Arturo Florio, a diplomat, has been murdered in New Orleans after hinting that he held information that could stop the conference from collapsing. Thurston pursues the matter through the city's waterfront and nightclubs, meeting Zora Olsen, the owner of a fruit company, and a banana-shipping crew. The series, The Man Called X, aired on December 14, 1947, with Herbert Marshall in the title role. The story turns on a dispute over anti-American propaganda and a suspicious cargo bound for Parakeeto.
New Orleans and Bogota, late 1940s, including the port, a supper club on North Rampart Street, and a ship bound for Parakeeto
Characters: Ken Thurston, Arturo Florio, Zora Olsen, Hurley, Brunig, Chief, Peggars, Malo Manzani
Listen for: Pay attention to Brunig's description of the scheme to install a dictator in Parakeeto and to Thurston's exchanges with Zora Olsen, which reveal the connections between the characters.
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.