What happens
Lieutenant Charles Temple, a police officer in colonial Kenya, becomes involved in the troubled household of Colonel Abernathy and his wife Lily. Their neighbour James Curry has been murdered, and the Colonel insists he can handle the threat without help. Temple grows uneasy about the couple's servant Ingumby, whose loyalty is in doubt, and about the tense atmosphere in the house. This episode of Suspense, first broadcast on May 17, 1955, stars Ramsay Hill and John Alderson.
Kenya Colony, East Africa, during the Mau Mau unrest
Characters: Lieutenant Charles Temple, Colonel Abernathy, Lily Abernathy, Ingumby, James Curry
Listen for: Temple's uneasy talks with Lily and the Colonel, and the tense exchanges with the servant Ingumby
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.