This is a show that (if I recall correctly) could be the answer to a trivia question: "Which RMT broadcast featured an Oscar-nominated actor/actress that wasn't Mercedes McCambridge?" (A: This one, with John Lithgow.)

However, I once had a physics professor in college, during the last four years of the RMT, who elaborated what was believed then about the concept of "black holes" and their relationship with time. He stood in the middle of the class walking in a circle, as an imaginary object would be as it spun round and round into the center of the hole. He said that time would start changing for that object and essentially slow up for it. He said, speaking like so, that "as I get closer and...closer to...the black...hole...everything...starts...getting...slo wer."

I remember this episode from my original RMT days, and that it started out as a great straightforward RMT mystery, but like the object caught in the black hole's maw it just...started...getting...slower. I listened (or tried to) to it again a few months back but ended up tuning out. I'm going to listen again.

My advice to my RMT listening friends...you need to be prepared to listen to two different RMT styles in the same program with this one. Many of you (like me) have reviewed a fine program "The raft", which IMO is the closest to this in terms of "paradigm shift for listeners" (if there is such a category). That particular RMT show started out loosely as a first person retelling of the events (a man started getting notes in his mail demanding 1 million dollars, and these were neither extortion, ransom or blackmail requests...he had mysterious memories that apparently were tied to these, but we never understood the whole story as he was trying to FORGET those memories) but when that man met an unfortunate end the story shifted mid-program to a straightforward "whodunit".

That program was, IMO, somewhat easier to listen to than "The dagger of Almohades", if you were unprepared for either. Just be ready for not only plot twists but style twists in this one...I'm going to listen to it again, and it may end up being one of my favorites.