What happens
Harry Lime, a dealer in shady schemes, is hired by Gregory Arcadin, a wealthy European industrialist who cannot remember his past. Arcadin asks Lime to investigate his own origins, fearing what he might uncover. Lime traces a tailor in Zurich and learns of a Warsaw criminal gang led by Sophie Wachinsky, with Arcadin's earlier identity connected to it. The story is told in the 1952 broadcast of The Mercury Theatre on the Air, first aired on April 11, 1952. Lime, a figure known from the film The Third Man, is the central character, and his investigation pulls in Arcadin's daughter Raena.
Late 1940s and early 1950s Europe, including Zurich, Paris, Antibes, Warsaw and Havana, with a private plane and a Mediterranean villa.
Characters: Harry Lime, Gregory Arcadin, Raena Arcadin, Art Carter, Sophie Wachinsky, Oscar
Listen for: Lime's dinner conversation with the tailor-turned-informant about Warsaw, and his later report on Arcadin's past.
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.