What happens
Dr. Neil Cream, a man who has recently lost his wife, takes lodgings at a boarding house in Bloomsbury, London. He strikes up friendships with the landlady's daughter, Daisy Minnes, and with a young woman named Mildred Vickers, who ends the relationship abruptly. Cream's manner grows increasingly unsettling as he speaks of his grief and his interest in medicine. The episode is an adaptation of Suspense, the CBS radio drama, presented with Charles Laughton in the title role; the original broadcast date was September 17, 1951.
London, England, in the 1890s, including a boarding house in Bloomsbury, a pub in Hammersmith, and the streets of the city.
Characters: Dr. Neil Cream, Mrs. Minnes, Daisy Minnes, Mildred Vickers, Edward Bridgman, Emily Cream, Inspector Warren, Sergeant Dietzer
Listen for: Cream's calm, reasonable tone as he describes his wife's death, and the way his remarks to the landlady's daughter and to Mildred Vickers grow more pointed.
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.