Inside Story: X Minus One (June 20, 1957)

“Inside Story” is an episode of X Minus One, the old-time radio show, first broadcast June 20, 1957. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Galactic News Service reporter George Gordon is bored on Mars until his bureau chief, Scott Warren, sends him after a story about Duroir, a sealed quarantine camp for Nully fever. Gordon gets in disguised in an invisible, airtight suit, and finds a hostile population of infected prisoners fighting over rations. He then discovers a fortified hilltop held by a faction that claims to be cured. The camp's grim conditions and the question of who is really in charge set up the investigation at the heart of this X Minus One adaptation of Richard Wilson's story. The episode was first broadcast on 1957-06-20 on NBC, and the cast includes Bob Hastings and Leon Janney.

Mars, the colonial city of Ioper and the Nully fever quarantine camp of Duroir

Characters: George Gordon, Scott Warren, Dr. Marx

Listen for: Gordon's first meeting with the prisoners and the fight over the fortified hill

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.