What happens
Pilot Larry Travis and his partner Johnny Baron, along with Johnny's girlfriend Ella Winen, are forced down in the Mexican desert after their plane loses power. The three are stranded, with one plane, a single gun, and limited water between them. Larry has a plan, but Johnny proves more resourceful than expected, and the uneasy trio begin to turn on one another in the heat. The Whistler is a radio anthology series that aired on CBS, and this episode, Desert Reckoning, originally aired on February 12, 1950. Wally Mayer, Doris Singleton and Hal Averback are the featured cast.
The Mexican desert, in a stranded cabin plane and the nearby rocks and sand
Characters: Larry Travis, Johnny Baron, Ella Winen
Listen for: The gunshot among the rocks and the sudden discovery of the radio tube
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.