What happens
Willard Rowley, a writer, is desperate after his wife Grace unexpectedly inherits a half million dollars. He has been secretly seeing his neighbor Nan Parker for two years, and Nan now threatens to expose the affair unless he runs away with her. Willard finds himself caught between his dependence on Grace and Nan's demands, and his week of indecision reaches a crisis. The story is part of The Whistler series, first broadcast on April 7, 1947.
A country home near a highway, with a nearby tractor shed and a photo lab, in the late 1940s.
Characters: Willard Rowley, Grace Rowley, Nan Parker, Ralph Parker, Mara, Finch, Sheriff
Listen for: Listen for Willard's increasingly tense conversations with Nan and Grace as his secret begins to unravel.
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.