What happens
Violinist Victor Carroll returns from wartime Italy with a rare violin given to him by the elderly Maestro La Berto, who has just died. Back home, his wife Peggy notices his strange behavior and his secretive hours in the attic studio. Carroll wins a place to play at Dr. Kravitz's season-opening concert, but a small, heavy-set man in a striped suit keeps appearing near him. The Whistler series, aired June 16, 1948, features David Ellis and Gene Bates in the lead roles.
Italy after the war, then an American city in 1948, including a family home, a concert hall, and an attic studio
Characters: Victor Carroll, Maestro La Berto, Peggy Carroll, Dr. Kravitz, Dino Brevelli, Lieutenant Faugh
Listen for: The Italian violin's history and the striped-suit stranger who keeps appearing
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.