What happens
Arnold Stanton, a respectable businessman, has grown determined to kill his dependent wife, Evelyn, and plans an ordinary-looking accident. The Whistler series presents this 1946 episode, The Broken Chain, first aired on May 20, 1946. The story follows Arnold through a single Monday, from his quiet dinner at home through a tense workday, as his plan seems to take shape. His secretary, Miss Roberts, passes along odd messages, and a stranger has asked to see him. The pressure builds as Arnold reaches his home and must face what he finds there.
A middle-class home and a city business office in the 1940s, over one Monday.
Characters: Arnold Stanton, Evelyn Stanton, Miss Roberts, Mrs. Bronson, Richards, Weston Haverill
Listen for: Arnold's shifting thoughts about his wife, Miss Roberts's messages from the office, and the stranger waiting at the front door.
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.