What happens
David Sutherland, a flyer facing ruin, meets Diana Blake in a San Francisco hotel skyroom and learns she is secretly married to Rex Melville, a man who looks exactly like him. The two devise a plan to swap identities, with Sutherland meeting Melville for a flight to a remote mountain summer house called Live Oak. The story follows Sutherland as he sets the plan in motion, arranges the flight, and later returns to the city. Robert Mitchum stars in this episode of the radio series Suspense, first broadcast on May 15, 1947.
San Francisco, Palo Alto and the High Sierra, 1940s
Characters: David Sutherland, Diana Blake, Rex Melville, Philip, Elevator boy
Listen for: The elevator scene where Sutherland first notices Diana, and the flight-plan exchange with San Francisco Radio
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.