What happens
Martin Elliott, a struggling Broadway actor, sees his career suddenly rise when playwright Hamilton Tevis agrees to write a starring role for him. His wife Julia and her agent Gordon Tucker are caught up in the news, and tensions quickly build between the couple. The Whistler, a radio anthology series, presents this story of ambition and marriage in New York. The episode first aired on August 27, 1947, and the cast includes Tony Barrett and Virginia Gray. Martin's plans and the events that follow the sudden death of Hamilton Tevis are set in motion as the first part of the story unfolds.
New York City and a Boston-bound night train, Broadway, 1940s
Characters: Martin Elliott, Julia Elliott, Gordon Tucker, Hamilton Tevis, Howard Hardy, Lieutenant Michael Ryan
Listen for: Martin's shifting moods as his career prospects rise and fall, and the tense exchanges between Martin, Julia and Gordon in the Elliott apartment
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.