What happens
Harry Lime, in Panama, meets Tiger Dolan, a former boxer and sergeant on the Hyacinth Patrol, who is wary of his rival Lieutenant Nugent. Tiger suspects Nugent of working for the enemy after seeing him visit a strange swamp man called Gibber, and asks Harry to help him investigate. Harry is drawn into the matter alongside a woman named Lola, whose jealousies complicate the situation. The Lives of Harry Lime is an episode of The Mercury Theatre on the Air, first broadcast on 1952-02-29, with Orson Welles as the Third Man. The story unfolds in the swamps and the canal area as the two men look into the lieutenant's activities.
Panama Canal Zone, during wartime, including a bar called Tomain Joe's, the Hyacinth Patrol base, and the swamps near the old French channel
Characters: Harry Lime, Tiger Dolan, Lieutenant Nugent, Lola, Rita, Gibber, Joe
Listen for: Harry Lime's wry narration and the dialogue between Harry and Tiger Dolan as they start to suspect Lieutenant Nugent
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.