What happens
Ken Thurston, an agent working for a wealthy client, escorts nuclear physicist Dr. Brenner from Madagascar after learning that nightclub owner Rocky Grant plans to seize Brenner's atomic discovery. Gilbert, Brenner's assistant, has traveled to America and warns Thurston of the danger. Thurston and the physicist's assistant board a plane with Brenner and Pagan, but the flight ends in a crash landing on a small uninhabited island in the Indian Ocean. The castaways soon face murder, poisoned coffee and a desperate struggle for the notebook of Dr. Brenner's secret knowledge. This broadcast is part of the series The Man Called X, first aired on September 19, 1948, with Herbert Marshall starring as Ken Thurston.
Madagascar, then a small uninhabited island in the Indian Ocean
Characters: Ken Thurston, Dr. Brenner, Gilbert, Rocky Grant, Pagan, Vanua, Wendell Niles
Listen for: Who handed Vanua the poisoned coffee, and what happens to Dr. Brenner's notebook
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.