What happens
Charlie Rader, a government agent, boards a cross-country bus from Hollywood carrying a secret. Two strangers, a woman named Lisa Nyland and a smiling man called Hutchinson, are working with spies who want the plans for a new jet motor. Charlie quietly tells his new acquaintance Julie Spalding about the danger, and the tension rises as the bus travels through Arizona and New Mexico. The episode is Suspense, the radio drama first broadcast on 1955-11-22, and it stars Parley Baer. The story follows Charlie as he tries to keep the plans safe and the people around him alive, while the watchful passengers close in.
A cross-country bus traveling from Hollywood, California, through Arizona and New Mexico, with stops at a restaurant terminal and a roadside stop on the Colorado border.
Characters: Charlie Rader, Julie Spalding, Lisa Nyland, Hutchinson
Listen for: Listen for Charlie's conversations with Julie on the bus and the tense exchange with Hutchinson about money and the jet motor plans.
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.