What happens
Poet Stephen Burns lives with his wife Marjorie and his brother John in a riverside house in London. After a quarrel with their maid, Emily Gaunt, Stephen accidentally kills her, and he and John sink her body in the river. The body resurfaces, and the household comes under suspicion as the girl's disappearance draws police attention and an inquest. This is the Suspense radio drama The House by the River, broadcast on 28 February 1948 and starring John McIntyre as Stephen Burns and Dan O'Herlihy as John Burns. The story is told in the present episode up to the inquest.
A riverside house on the Thames in London, England, in the summer of 1947
Characters: Stephen Burns, John Burns, Marjorie Burns, Emily Gaunt, Mrs. Ambrose, Henry Dimple, Muriel, Inspector
Listen for: The inquest scene, where Stephen is questioned about the sack and the firewood
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.