What happens
Boris, a young revolutionary in Russia, recruits Olga Korolska, a servant in Prince Ogarev's household, into a plot to assassinate the Tsar. Boris wants a glorious act that will end tyranny, and he meets Prince Ogarev, a grieving aristocrat who has his own reasons for wanting the Tsar dead. Together they plan to bring down St. Basil's Cathedral during the New Year midnight mass, drawing in Sergius Lemma to rent an apartment facing the square. As the night approaches, Boris and Olga must weigh their love and their conscience against the cause they have taken up. This is an episode of the Suspense radio series, first broadcast January 13, 1957.
Late nineteenth-century Russia, in St. Petersburg, in a university room, a prince's household, a rented apartment, and St. Basil's Cathedral on New Year's Eve.
Characters: Boris, Olga Korolska, Prince Ogarev, Sergius Lemma
Listen for: Listen for Boris's account of his plan to bring down the cathedral during the midnight mass, and for the moment Olga's loyalty to him is tested.
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.