High Man

Roger Brisby lands a promising job in New York, but his engagement back in London is quickly fraying as his fiancée Anne floods him with worried letters. The distance and his demanding schedule leave him unable to respond, and the tension builds into accusations of desertion. As the city’s bustling streets loom around him, a chance encounter promises a dramatic shift in his fortunes.

In a smoky hotel bar he meets the flamboyant Professor Burdinghaugh, a disgraced academic obsessed with an anti‑gravity belt that could rewrite humanity’s relationship with the sky. The professor, eager for a test subject, convinces Roger to strap on the contraption, promising fame as the first man to defy Earth’s pull. With the belt humming and the professor’s wild ambition driving him, Roger steps toward an experiment that might lift him—literally—into the headlines.

As the belt powers up, Roger finds himself caught between scientific obsession, personal ambition, and the lingering doubts of the woman he left behind. Listeners will be drawn into a blend of romance, humor, and speculative wonder as he teeters on the brink of an unprecedented breakthrough.