What happens
Craig McElvie, a foreign correspondent who has just come to Hong Kong from Calcutta, meets his old acquaintance Alphonse Selendrum, who offers him fifty thousand dollars to file a false dispatch about a musk deal. McElvie agrees, but after his editor fires him, he sees a chance to file the story under another man's name. Selendrum arrives to meet him with a large payment in mind. The story is part of The Whistler radio series, first broadcast on January 27, 1952.
Hong Kong, early 1950s, with flashbacks to Calcutta and a passenger ship arrival at the harbour
Characters: Craig McElvie, Alphonse Selendrum, Frank Parksley, Timothy Ames, Inspector Wilson
Listen for: Selendrum's offer of fifty thousand dollars for a false dispatch, and McElvie's sudden change of plans after his editor's cable
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.