What happens
Ken Thurston, the man called X, is drawn into a case after his old friend Paul de Giares phones him from Luxembourg, warning that dangerous war criminals and international crooks plan to enter the United States. Paul's trail leads Ken to a dead man in a cafe, a travel agent named Pagan Zelsmith, and Paul's fiancee Antoinette de L'Arge. Sally Dennis, a reporter, also joins the search. The Man Called X is a radio drama, and this episode first aired on March 7, 1948, with Herbert Marshall as Ken Thurston. The story follows the group from Luxembourg through Lisbon toward Winnipeg as they pursue the men who are using stolen papers to get into America.
Luxembourg, Lisbon, and Winnipeg, in the years after the Second World War
Characters: Ken Thurston, Paul de Giares, Sally Dennis, Pagan Zelsmith, Antoinette de L'Arge, Overbeck
Listen for: Ken's conversation with Pagan Zelsmith about how the criminals plan to get into the United States, and the scene at the farm outside Winnipeg
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.