What happens
Dr. Robert Graham, a psychiatrist, takes into his home Roger Holcomb, a man who was briefly dead and revived. Holcomb now compulsively reveals the truth whenever someone lies in his presence, and this unsettles the household, including Graham's wife Isabel, a pianist recovering from a mental illness. Graham hopes to study Holcomb's unusual condition, while Isabel and her aunt Jane grow increasingly uneasy about the arrangement. Graham's own quarrels with his wife and her family set the stage for the tensions that follow. This is the Suspense episode Lazarus Walks, from The Mercury Theatre on the Air, first broadcast on October 19, 1943.
A house and office in an American city, with Dr. Graham's home drawing room and Holcomb's quarters
Characters: Dr. Robert Graham, Isabel Graham, Jane, Roger Holcomb, Leopold Serensky
Listen for: Holcomb's compulsion to speak the truth whenever someone lies in his presence, and the strained conversations at the Graham house
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.