What happens
Ken Thurston, a secret agent known as the Man Called X, works to free Johann Werner, a Czech underground leader sentenced to labor in the Yakimov uranium mines. Thurston has been missing in Czechoslovakia for weeks, and his contacts have gone silent. Following instructions from a mysterious go-between, he poses as a bather at the Carlsbad mineral baths to make contact. The series is an American radio adventure program, first broadcast on May 13, 1952, with Herbert Marshall starring as the title character. The episode's opening portion follows Thurston's initial infiltration and his tense early exchanges with the underground network.
Czechoslovakia, including Carlsbad, the Yakimov uranium mines, and the US zone of Germany
Characters: Ken Thurston, Johann Werner, Anton Gora, Elsa, Pagan Zellschmidt, Ilza
Listen for: Ken Thurston's first contact with Johann Werner inside the mines, and Anton Gora's introduction at the mineral baths
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.