What happens
Harry Lime arrives in Marseille and is approached by a flower seller, who sends him to a dangerous black market boss, Grippo. Lime offers his services to the racketeer and agrees to a meeting at an abandoned warehouse on the waterfront. Through the old woman Annie, Lime sets up a black market distribution scheme using flower sales as cover. Part of this episode is adapted from the 1949 film The Third Man, with Orson Welles in the title role. The episode aired on March 14, 1952, on The Mercury Theatre on the Air.
Marseille, France, during the German occupation, including the old town, the waterfront and an abandoned warehouse on the South Bank of the Old Port
Characters: Harry Lime, Grippo, Annie, Colonel Rungut
Listen for: Harry Lime's arrival in Marseille and his first meeting with Grippo at the warehouse
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.