What happens
Harry Lime, a cigarette smuggler driving a truck toward Marseille, stops on a French road at dawn to help a red-haired woman named Lily push a stalled limousine. The car holds a bald man in evening dress who is dead, and Harry soon finds himself pulled into the woman's life. Orson Welles plays Harry Lime in this episode of The Mercury Theatre on the Air, first broadcast on May 23, 1952. The story follows Harry through a tangle of hotels, a woman named Danny, a missing passport and a gun, as the pair try to reach Paris on the night train.
The French Riviera, around Monte Carlo and Nice, in the summer of 1946
Characters: Harry Lime, Lily, Danny, Victor Savage, Patrice
Listen for: Harry's wry narration as he tangles with Danny and Lily while trying to get out of the Riviera
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.