What happens
Harry Lime, a charming and resourceful man, responds to a newspaper advertisement seeking a multilingual publicist for a young woman named Melody Johnson. He meets her at a Genoa dance hall, where she hires him to promote her as a beauty queen, and she secures them both first-class cabins on a ship bound for Naples and Cairo. During the voyage, Harry notices a suspicious man named Minnelli following them, and Melody begins to confide in him about a dangerous secret she has been carrying. The episode is part of The Mercury Theatre on the Air, originally broadcast on 1952-05-30.
Genoa, Naples and aboard a ship bound for Alexandria, Egypt, in the early 1950s
Characters: Harry Lime, Melody Johnson, Minnelli, Stuart, Count Paul, Vicente Vittoria
Listen for: Harry's bargaining with Vittoria and his trade of the real pearls for imitations
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.