What happens
Harry Lime, a charming gambler, meets Louise at a Monte Carlo casino in 1936 and the two quickly fall into a romance. Their evening is interrupted when Louise's husband, Pierre, appears at her door and demands money in compensation. Harry turns the situation to his advantage and agrees to join Pierre and Louise in a scheme to smuggle American dollars into England by parachute. The Mercury Theatre on the Air presents this dramatization of The Third Man character, with Orson Welles as Harry Lime. The episode aired on January 18, 1952.
Monte Carlo, Paris, and England in 1936
Characters: Harry Lime, Louise, Pierre, Robert Brand
Listen for: Harry's clever bluff with Pierre and Louise, and the smuggling scheme that follows
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.