What happens
Bookkeeper Joe Harper works for the Randolph Theater chain, and his salary does not cover his debts. After losing heavily on horse races through bookmaker Sid Kurtz, he takes money from the theater's cash receipts to cover the bets. Kurtz pressures him to pay by Friday, and Harper's fiancée Jeannie and his boss Mr. Randolph are drawn into the trouble. The episode is Suspense: Win, Place or Die, aired April 13, 1958, with frank lovejoy in the lead. Harper's debts mount as the audit approaches, and a meeting with Charlie McManus is set for a bar that evening.
Randolph Theater chain office and a tip-top club, New York area, late 1950s
Characters: Joe Harper, Jeannie Thorpe, Mr. Randolph, Sid Kurtz, Charlie McManus, Rita, Daphne Forsyth
Listen for: Harper's growing debts to the bookmaker and the approaching audit of the theater books
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.