One Way Street: Suspense (January 23, 1947)

“One Way Street” is an episode of Suspense, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 23, 1947. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Georgie Williams returns to London's Courtney Lane, the street he grew up on, after six months in prison. He goes to live with his crooked Uncle Bert, who has recently married a widow named Edna Pendry. Georgie resents the marriage, suspects Bert of wanting her money, and finds a box of rat poison in the kitchen cupboard beside Edna's medicine. Georgie is a Suspense episode first broadcast on January 23, 1947, with Roddy McDowell as Georgie, Raymond Lawrence as Bert and Jeanette Nolan as Edna.

Courtney Lane, a rough street in London, and the house of Uncle Bert and Edna

Characters: Georgie Williams, Uncle Bert, Edna Pendry

Listen for: The rat poison kept in the kitchen cupboard beside Edna's medicine, and Georgie's growing suspicion of Bert

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.