What happens
Harry Lime, a swindler staying at a Swiss hotel, overhears the German industrialist Hans Crop planning to bribe a British United Nations official for plans on the industrialization of Western Europe. Crop asks Lime to act as go-between, and Lime's dealings with Crop and his daughter Frida draw the two men into a scheme involving a sum of 30,000 pounds. The Mercury Theatre on the Air presents this episode, based on the character from the motion picture The Third Man, with Orson Welles as Harry Lime, first broadcast on 1952-03-07.
A hotel in Bürgenstock, Switzerland, in the years after the war
Characters: Harry Lime, Hans Crop, Kurt Mannheim, Frida Crop, Bill Foster
Listen for: Harry Lime's attempts to play Hans Crop and Frida against each other
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.