What happens
Harry Lime enlists Joan Willoughby, an English woman, to help him rob Count de la Robbia, a wealthy Venetian nobleman. Lime has a plan to steal the Count's jewels, which the Count keeps hidden, and Joan is to befriend the Count and his bodyguard Rico to learn where they are kept. The Count is taken with Joan, and Lime arranges to meet him through her. The story is part of the Mercury Theatre on the Air series, first broadcast on March 28, 1952, with Orson Welles as Harry Lime. This guide covers only the first part of the episode.
Venice, Italy, shortly after the war
Characters: Harry Lime, Joan Willoughby, Count de la Robbia, Rico
Listen for: Joan's efforts to win the Count's trust and Lime's scheme to get the jewels from the Count's palace
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.