What happens
Ken Thurston, working with the Bureau in New York, follows a Tibetan prayer wheel and a hidden message that point toward the forbidden city of Lhasa. In Darjeeling he looks for Awani O'Hara, a curio dealer, but finds her shop dark and strange, and he and his companion Pagan search it. Thurston is drawn to the monastery of Chai Zong, where the patriarch Dao Sun asks for his help to return the young Karai Lama to freedom. The series is The Man Called X, starring Herbert Marshall, and this episode first aired on November 18, 1950.
Darjeeling and the forbidden city of Lhasa in Tibet, with the monastery of Chai Zong nearby
Characters: Ken Thurston, Pagan, Awani O'Hara, Dao Sun, Karai Lama, Maisau, Gold Hat
Listen for: The arrival at Lhasa and the discovery of the imposter lama wearing a devil mask
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.