The Revolution: Suspense (March 13, 1960)

“The Revolution” is an episode of Suspense, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 13, 1960. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

An American couple, Bob and Liz Sherman, on their honeymoon in a Latin American country, photograph a dictator's motorcade and are then detained by the secret police after refusing to hand over the picture. Captain Santos, a police captain under the dictator El Supremo, questions them and insists the photograph exists, threatening them with execution. As the couple tries to convince him that no picture was ever taken, the captain's orders grow more dangerous. The episode is part of the Suspense series, originally broadcast on March 13, 1960.

A Latin American country under a dictatorship, including a hotel, a police headquarters and a mountain road

Characters: Bob Sherman, Liz Sherman, Captain Santos, Sergeant Rivera, Lieutenant Garcia

Listen for: Captain Santos's questioning of the couple and their attempts to prove there was no photograph

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.