What happens
Joe and Ellen Charles, a Los Angeles couple, drive home from a movie in the San Fernando Valley while a radio news report describes a killer, Lewis Mattrick, who is wanted for a family murder in New Hampshire. Joe, a homicide detective, realizes that a man has climbed into their back seat with a gun at Ellen's neck. Forced to keep driving, Joe must find a way to protect his wife and get a message to the authorities without alerting the armed man. The episode is from the CBS radio series Suspense and aired on 1955-07-19, with Vivi Janis and Parley Baer starring.
Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley, July night, 1955
Characters: Joe Charles, Ellen Charles, Lewis Mattrick, Mike Kennedy, Miranda, Bill
Listen for: Joe's clever attempts to signal Mike Kennedy and the others without tipping off the gunman
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.