What happens
Ken Thurston, a chemist's friend, sits with his fiancée Nancy at a Manhattan cocktail lounge when his old roommate Bill Nisbet joins them and then drinks a poisoned martini. After Bill dies, Ken finds a name and a village in Bill's pocket and travels to Italy to investigate. In the village he meets a peddler, learns of a dead professor named Antonelli, and finds two mysterious women guarding the late man's house. The episode shows Ken's search for the truth and the danger he faces among the women's suspicious household. This is a Globe Theatre broadcast of The Man Called X, first aired on August 28, 1944, and the listener hears the drama unfold in the first part of the story.
Midtown Manhattan, then a small Italian village and a house nearby
Characters: Ken Thurston, Nancy Bessington, Bill Nisbet, Pietro, Castro the peddler, Antonelli, Gina, Aegon
Listen for: The poisoned martini at the lounge and the musical clue Antonelli leaves behind
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.