What happens
Freddie Mac Williams works as a clerk in a store owned by Mr. Kelsey, a man he has served loyally for 26 years. Freddie is devoted to his late mother, whose strict teaching shaped his sense of honesty, and he begins to court Dora, a warm young woman at the store. Hoping to win her affection, he is persuaded by Tom Bass, a gambler, to bet on a horse. When the bet fails, Freddie finds himself in a desperate position. The broadcast is an episode of the Suspense radio series, first aired on August 5, 1948, starring Charles Lawton.
A store in an unnamed city, and the streets around it, in the 1940s.
Characters: Freddie Mac Williams, Mr. Kelsey, Dora, Tom Bass, Billy, Mr. Kelsey's mother
Listen for: Freddie's growing desperation after he takes money from the cash register and loses it on the horse.
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.