What happens
Joe Taylor, a lab technician at a research institute, works under Dr. Bernstein on a process that makes living things transparent. After a chimpanzee named Chico escapes, Joe grows restless with his low pay and his troubled romance with Janice, a coworker who has been seeing another man. Joe begins to plan how invisibility could bring him money and power. The story is part of the Suspense radio series, first broadcast on June 8, 1958, and features Larry Parks in the lead role.
A research laboratory and the surrounding town in the United States, where a scientific experiment on transparency goes wrong.
Characters: Joe Taylor, Janice, Dr. Bernstein, Chico, Pat, Carter
Listen for: Joe's growing ambition and the moment he discovers that the process may not be reversible.
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.