What happens
Ken Thurston, a bureau agent who wants nothing to do with an odd cable, is drawn to Bombay when a message warns of a deadly harvest in Khandiva province. He learns of Dr. Stanley, an English agricultural engineer whose tractor equipment could clear the Khan's grass that has overrun millions of acres of farmland. Thurston joins Dr. Stanley's reclamation party, which runs into sabotage, murder, and an angry mob in Khandiva. The Man Called X, a radio series, aired on April 7, 1951, with Herbert Marshall in the title role.
Bombay and the back country of Khandiva province, India
Characters: Ken Thurston, Mahuva Sholto, Dr. Roger Stanley, Jack Martin, Barry Sholto, Turbot, Pagan Selchmet, Laal
Listen for: The sudden fire in the grass field and the sabotage of the tractor equipment
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.