What happens
Madeline Portier, a young French woman working in a Los Angeles bookshop, lives in fear of a Nazi she believes is still hunting her. When newspaper correspondent Alan Tennyson learns of her past in occupied Paris, he becomes interested in her story. The Whistler series presents this episode, Ticket to Paris, first broadcast on February 20, 1949. Madeline tries to raise money for a passage back to Paris, her plans growing more desperate as tensions in the bookshop rise and the people around her begin to clash.
Los Angeles, shortly after World War II, in and around an old bookshop on Olive Street, with scenes at a bar and a club.
Characters: Madeline Portier, Alan Tennyson, Hattie Simmons, George, Officer Davie
Listen for: Listen for the moment Madeline's calm is tested by Hattie's questions about her trunk and the German gun inside it.
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.