What happens
In occupied France, the town of Bellac is terrified by a killer known as the Bluebeard, whose victims are found mutilated. Madame Cecile Combre, newly married to a local doctor named Pierre Combre, comes to a German colonel with information. She is convinced her husband is the killer and fears he will murder her that night. Speaking with the colonel and a lieutenant, she recounts her year in Bellac, the gossip in the village, and the strange locked cellar in her husband's house. The episode is a radio play from the Suspense series, first broadcast on September 21, 1944, starring Merle Oberon.
Occupied France, the village of Bellac, 1944
Characters: Cecile Combre, Pierre Combre, Colonel Strelitz, Captain Franz Miller, Madame Boucher, Lieutenant
Listen for: Madame Combre's account of the night she followed her husband to the cellar, and the colonel's questioning in the cellar room.
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.