What happens
Harry Lime visits the Sicilian town of Taormina on holiday and meets Antonio Vegas, an old friend who is a clown with a travelling circus. Vegas is in love with Nola, a performer in the circus who treats him coldly, and Harry watches the troubled affair unfold. Vegas then reveals to Harry that he has hidden a fortune in smuggled emeralds, and he asks Harry to look after his daughter Teresa if anything should happen to him. The series is The Mercury Theatre on the Air, and this episode was first broadcast on 18 April 1952.
Taormina, Sicily, in a travelling circus and a hotel
Characters: Harry Lime, Antonio Vegas, Nola, Lola, Teresa
Listen for: Harry Lime's wry narration and the circus scenes with Antonio Vegas and Nola
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.