A chance meeting on a train between two people and the conversation that ensues.

Dashiell Hammett created the character Sam Spade for his crime story The Maltese Falcon. Spade was a hard-boiled detective with cold detachment, a keen eye for detail, and an unflinching determination to exact his own justice. For most people, Spade is most closely associated with actor Humphrey Bogart, who played him in the third and most famous film version of The Maltese Falcon. In 1946 one of radio's top producers, William Spier, brought Sam Spade to the airwaves in a...

A childhood recollection of events surrounding an unusual tree that grew at the home of his grandparents.

The story of an artist living in the islands who finds a beautiful woman to be his model and how he deals with her loss.

The neighbourhood will never be the same after the two eminent scientists Sir Isaac Newt and Albert Ironstone find themselves neighbours. Frank scientific debate descends into chaos as each man endeavours to outwit the other and thereby gain the plaudits of that most august of institutions, the Royal Academy.

Sam Spade was a hard-boiled detective with cold detachment, a keen eye for detail, and unflinching determination to achieve his own justice. The character of Sam Spade was created by writer Dashiell Hammett in 1930 for his crime story The Maltese Falcon, and for most people, the character is closely associated with actor Humphrey Bogart, who played Sam Spade in the third and most famous film version of the story.In 1946 William Spier, one of radio’s top producers, brought ...

Tight, tense, and packed with excitement! No director in radio could do more with thirty minutes than William Spier…and no half hour in radio could do more to keep you on the edge of your chair than Suspense!Hear radio drama at its absolute best in an all-new collection of twenty episodes, drawnfrom the cream of the 1946-47 season. Hear stars like Vincent Price, Rita Hayworth, Robert Young, Joseph Cotten, and Judy Garland in Radio's Outstanding Theatre of Thrills!Episodes Include: Return T...