What happens
Harry Lime, a swindler posing as a Wall Street businessman in Cuba, sets out to fleece Stan Pierce, a naive insurance man from Cleveland whom he meets on a flight. Lime's accomplice, Jenny, befriends Pierce in Florida and hints at a secret fight-fixing scheme involving Lime's young boxer, Pancho. Lime has arranged a private bout at his Havana estate, and Pierce is drawn in with the promise of big odds. The episode is part of The Mercury Theatre on the Air series, first broadcast on December 21, 1951, with Orson Welles in the title role.
Miami, Florida, and a private boxing bout at Harry Lime's estate near Havana, Cuba
Characters: Harry Lime, Stan Pierce, Jenny, Pancho Cadorbus, Burke
Listen for: Harry Lime explaining his fight-fixing scheme to Stan Pierce, and the private bout at Lime's estate in Havana
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.