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July 28, 2017 By Wendy Lambert Leave a Comment

DL097: The Choice – Andy Gets In People’s Bad Books

~ Gunsmoke – The Choice, Part 2 You’re hired! Andy gets a job – the kind of job that requires a lot of responsibility. He’ll be riding shotgun for Jim Buck, the stagecoach driver. He sits on top of the stagecoach beside the driver and carries a shotgun. If the stage gets held up […]

July 15, 2017 By Wendy Lambert Leave a Comment

DL096: Gunsmoke: The Choice, Part 1 – New Guy in Town

New Folks Showing Up All the Time Andy Hill is the new guy in Dodge City. It’s the late 1800’s (around the 1870s) when people were moving west across America. Towns were being settled and growing into cities. It’s a fast growing town so there are new folks showing up all the time. The railway […]

June 30, 2017 By Wendy Lambert Leave a Comment

DL095: Harry Lime ~ Why Harry’s Conscience is Clear

~ The Lives of Harry Lime: Ticket to Tangier, Part 7 A Clear Conscience In this episode, it’s “every man for himself”. When the police raid the mansion, they’re wondering what they should do with the heroin. Should they abandon the heroin and run, or take it and risk being caught with it? They have to […]

June 16, 2017 By Wendy Lambert Leave a Comment

DL094: Harry Lime ~ Two’s Company, Three’s a Crowd

~ The Lives of Harry Lime: Ticket to Tangier, Part 6 It’s Getting Overcrowded Harry and Patsy have company – an unexpected visitor. He says he’s an associate of her late husband. In other words, he’s a gangster who had some business dealings with her husband. He knows about the heroin and he has come to […]

June 2, 2017 By Wendy Lambert Leave a Comment

DL093: Harry Lime ~ It’s Against My Morals

~ The Lives of Harry Lime: Ticket to Tangier, Part 5 It’s Against My Morals: In this episode, Harry finds out why Patsy brought him to Tangier. She has something to show him and a job for him to do. But what Patsy expects of him goes against his morals — she wants him to […]

May 19, 2017 By Wendy Lambert Leave a Comment

DL092: Harry Lime ~ How the Rich Call the Shots

~ The Lives of Harry Lime: Ticket to Tangier, Part 4 Along for the ride Let’s face it, Harry knew that he wasn’t the one to call the shots. Obviously, someone had looked for him with the personal ad in the newspaper, led him to the concierge who handed him an envelope, and provided him […]

May 5, 2017 By Wendy Lambert Leave a Comment

DL091: Harry Lime ~ How to date a woman when you’re broke

~ The Lives of Harry Lime, Ticket to Tangier, Part 3: Too Good to be True: Who is this woman? Already very attracted to her beauty, Harry now he finds that she can really dance too. In fact, she seems to be too good at it. It makes him question her true identity. Is […]

April 21, 2017 By Wendy Lambert Leave a Comment

DL090: Harry Lime ~ Everything’s Taken Care Of

The Adventures of Harry Lime: Ticket to Tangier, Part 2 of 7 Nothing to lose: Harry wants to get to Tangier to chase after the promise of a lucrative deal. The only problem is, he doesn’t have the money to get there. As he puzzles over his problem in the pub, he sees a […]

March 24, 2017 By Wendy Lambert Leave a Comment

DL089: Harry Lime – Why You Should Read the News

The Adventures of Harry Lime: Ticket to Tangier, Part 1 of 7 Not the best role model Today’s episode open’s with a little history on Harry Lime. It connects the Harry Lime of the radio plays with the Harry Lime of the 1949 movie, The Third Man. So, who is Harry Lime? As a story […]

March 10, 2017 By Wendy Lambert Leave a Comment

DL088: Find 100,000 Barrels of Oil – Get the Upper Hand

~ Part 7 of a “Dangerous Assignment” old-time radio play: Backed Into a Corner Government agent Mitchel has figured out how the oil was stolen and who did it, but how will he make it out of the ruins alive? It looks like the secret will die with him, but Mitchel is more resourceful than that! Gain […]