What happens
Harry Lime, a worldly American in Algiers, meets a young American tourist named Susan Clement at the Barbary Queen, a nightclub where he is a regular. After she is drugged at a flat, Lime takes her to a convent of the Little Sisters of Charity and then to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clement. He collects a blackmail payment, and Mike Nolan, a detective, watches him throughout the evening. The episode is from The Mercury Theatre on the Air, first broadcast February 1, 1952, starring Orson Welles as Harry Lime.
Algiers, North Africa, in the nightclub district and a city apartment area
Characters: Harry Lime, Magda, Susan Clement, Mike Nolan, Mr. Clement, Mrs. Clement
Listen for: Harry Lime's cynical, playful banter with Magda and Susan at the Barbary Queen
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.