What happens
Gabriel Syme, a young poet, meets Gregory at a Saffron Park gathering and is provoked into claiming he is a true anarchist. Gregory takes him to a hidden steel room beneath a dingy bar and reveals he is a police detective who has infiltrated the anarchist council. Syme agrees to a secret pact, and Gregory has him elected to the council's seat called Thursday. The story is from The Mercury Theatre on the Air, broadcast on September 5, 1938, and adapted from G. K. Chesterton's novel. Syme then finds himself among the council's leaders, including the enormous president known as Sunday, who are planning an attack on a visiting monarch and head of state in Paris.
Saffron Park, London, and later Leicester Square and the Thames, with the anarchist council meeting in a hidden steel chamber beneath a bar
Characters: Gabriel Syme, Gregory, Rosamund, Sunday, Dr. Bull, Professor de Worms, Marquis de Saint-Eustache, Gogol
Listen for: The moment Gregory reveals his true identity and the tense breakfast-table meeting where Syme must reveal nothing
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.