What happens
Harry Lime returns to New York after hearing that an old enemy, Governor James Hadley, is in trouble. Hadley has been targeted by the gangster Kato, who holds compromising photographs and threatens to release them before the election. Hadley hires Lime to recover the negatives for fifteen thousand dollars, and Lime sets out to deal with Kato. The story is part of the Mercury Theatre on the Air series, first broadcast on August 17, 1951, and is a radio adaptation of the character from The Third Man. This guide covers only the first part of the episode.
New York City and the state capital, in the early 1950s
Characters: Harry Lime, Governor James Hadley, Nora Payton, Kato, Truba, Lyle
Listen for: Lime's first meeting with Governor Hadley at the hotel, where the governor makes his offer
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.