What happens
Harry Lime, a shady operator, is given fifty thousand dollars' worth of opium by a frightened man being chased by police in Tehran. Lime flees to Paris and befriends Helen Hughes, a young American visiting with her parents, the Hughes family from Youngstown. He charms the family, gives them a silver frame as a gift, and plans to hide the opium inside it so it passes customs unnoticed. The Hughes family leave for America, and Lime sets out to recover the drug.
Tehran and Paris, early 1950s
Characters: Harry Lime, Helen Hughes, Tom Hughes, Mrs. Hughes, Jack Hughes
Listen for: Lime's bold courtship of Helen in Paris and his scheme to smuggle the opium in a silver frame.
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.