What happens
Professor Wagner discovers that Dean Emerson has published research stolen from a dead graduate student, Lloyd Nielsen. Wagner confronts the Dean, who demands Wagner's resignation and offers to name him as successor in exchange for silence. Wagner agrees to dine with the Dean that evening and is soon stricken with pain, believing he has been poisoned. Nearby, he finds the Dean dead in the summer house, and he must decide how to conceal the death. The episode is part of the long-running radio anthology The Whistler, first broadcast on May 19, 1947.
A college campus and the nearby town, including the chemistry building, the Dean's home and summer house, a drugstore, a ranger station, and a ski lodge in the mountains.
Characters: Professor Wagner, Dean Emerson, Miss Rose, Mrs. Emerson, Dr. Phillips, Mason, Lloyd Nielsen
Listen for: Wagner's shifting suspicions about the poison and his attempts to disguise the Dean's death as an accident.
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.