A Vision of Death: Suspense (March 8, 1951)

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“A Vision of Death” is an episode of Suspense, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 8, 1951. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Mind-reader John Dollar, performing with his wife Aurora in their nightclub act, is shaken when Aurora begins naming objects without any gimmick. Their agent Harry Arnold seems to be involved in the strange turn of events. Aurora grows frightened after a sense of foreboding about Harry, and John is drawn into the tension as her warnings begin to take shape. Suspense presents this 1951 episode, first broadcast on March 8, 1951, with Ronald Coleman in the lead role. Characters and setting are as heard in the opening portion.

A nightclub act and a hotel suite in an American city, with a police precinct framing the story

Characters: John, Aurora, Harry Arnold, Lieutenant

Listen for: Aurora's sudden, unexplained knowledge during the act, and her growing fear of Harry Arnold

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.