What happens
Harry Lime, a smooth swindler, sails from New York to Southampton on the liner Queen Anne. Aboard he cultivates Lady Barbara Follett, whose mysterious companion, a young woman calling herself Miss Jones, wears a fine string of matched pearls. Harry becomes friendly with both women, gaining their confidence and learning more about the companion. This is the Mercury Theatre on the Air presentation of The Lives of Harry Lime, with Orson Welles as Harry Lime, a character created for the film The Third Man, first broadcast on September 21, 1951.
A transatlantic ocean liner, the Queen Anne, sailing from New York to Southampton, followed by a hotel in London.
Characters: Harry Lime, Lady Barbara Follett, Miss Jones, Stuart
Listen for: Harry's clever handling of the passengers and the mystery surrounding Miss Jones and her pearls.
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.