What happens
Catherine Ford, wife of wealthy retired manufacturer Andrew Ford, is contacted by a stranger named Harry Jones, who claims to be the brother of George Watson, Catherine's first husband. Harry introduces a young man named Gerald, who he says is Catherine's son from her early marriage. Catherine agrees to pay Harry for the boy and takes Gerald into the Ford household as a nephew. Andrew Ford collects gems in his library, where his secretary Paul Blake works with him. The episode is from the CBS series The Whistler, first broadcast January 17, 1943.
The Ford mansion and the apartments of Harry Jones in an unnamed city, in the 1940s
Characters: Catherine Ford, Harry Jones, Gerald, Andrew Ford, Paul Blake, Alice Ford
Listen for: The gradual revelation of Gerald's true identity and the growing tension between Paul Blake and Alice Ford
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.