What happens
In Budapest, Dr. Franz Gerner is pressured by Hungarian officials Laszlo Kogosch and Marshal Nikolai Chekhov into a secret mission. They order him to escape to the West and kill Corinna Zanova, a former minister who plans to tell her story to the United Nations. Gerner is given a poisoned hypodermic hidden in his shoe and told to recruit a border runner, Laiosh Molnar, on a train. Gerner agrees, under threat to his family. The episode is the 1957 Suspense broadcast Escape to Death, starring Francis Lederer, first aired on April 28, 1957.
Budapest, Hungary, and the Hungarian-Austrian border in the winter of 1956-57
Characters: Dr. Franz Gerner, Laszlo Kogosch, Marshal Nikolai Chekhov, Corinna Zanova, Laiosh Molnar
Listen for: The tense exchange in which Gerner is told he must kill Corinna Zanova, and the train scene where Molnar is hidden among the children.
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.