What happens
Ken Thurston and his companion Peggon crash-land on a hilltop during a storm between Cairo and Teheran. There Ken meets a young girl who says she has come to the hill to end her life, and he tries to convince her that the world is worth living in. Their talk moves through the Christmas story and the lives of ordinary people, and the girl is shown visions of tomorrow. The Man Called X is a radio series starring Herbert Marshall, and this episode first aired on December 21, 1947.
A hilltop between Cairo and Teheran, during a storm and then at dawn, with a Christmas-season town in the valley below.
Characters: Ken Thurston, Peggon, the little girl
Listen for: Ken's conversation with the girl on the hilltop, which turns on whether ordinary people deserve hope.
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.