If I Can’t Have You

CBS Radio Mystery Theater "If I Can’t Have You" is a Mystery from Monday, December 25, 1978.

Victor Volovsky plays the violin; Praskovya Suslove is the cellist; Sergei Berdayev is at the piano. Praskovya is engaged to Victor, but Sergei also loves her. Their music is not affected by this inner turmoil, but the “people’s” government is. It wants Victor to spy on Sergei, who has expressed some reservations about the government. Victor becomes jealous when Praskovya, upset by his infatuation with a buxom, blonde television interviewer, pretends she prefers Sergei. This causes Victor to do something he later terms “despicable.”