What happens
Homer Biglow, a meek bank clerk stuck in a dull routine, overhears bank director Corbin Vandergriff planning to receive a young woman's smuggled securities worth eighty thousand dollars. Vandergriff falls ill and asks Mr. Pearson to meet the visitor, Hester Vale, but Homer begins to imagine taking the money himself. Suspense is the radio drama series, and this August 7, 1947 broadcast stars Walter Abel as Homer Biglow, with Kathy Lewis as Hester Vale.
A bank in an American city in 1947, a fishing camp on the Eel River, and a New York hotel near the Ambassador.
Characters: Homer Biglow, Corbin Vandergriff, Mr. Pearson, Hester Vale, Emil
Listen for: Homer's growing resolve as he listens to the bankers and begins to plan his own scheme.
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.