What happens
Dr. Arthur Kurt tells Martha Davis that her husband Simon Davis, a hypochondriac patient, overheard a misfiled lab report that seemed to be his own, and now believes he is dying. Simon has left the clinic in a distressed state, and Martha and Dr. Kurt race against the clock to find him. Police are alerted as they search his office, the streets, pawn shops and a drugstore. Diagnosis of Death is a 1955 episode of the radio series Suspense, first broadcast on February 10, 1955, starring Gene Raymond with Lawrence Dobkin.
A medical clinic and city streets, including Simon Davis's office, a drugstore, and a pawn shop, in a city in the mid-1950s
Characters: Dr. Arthur Kurt, Martha Davis, Simon Davis, Jim, Miss Herman, Sergeant
Listen for: The nurse's phone call and the overheard lab report that Simon takes to be his own diagnosis
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.