A Very Odd Job: Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator (January 30, 1952)

“A Very Odd Job” is an episode of Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 30, 1952. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Barry Craig accepts an unusual job: deliver a puppet to Ann Kelly, a dancer at Easy's nightclub on the East 80s, for two hundred dollars. When Craig arrives at the club and finds Kelly unconscious in her dressing room with the puppet, he grows suspicious and questions the nightclub owner Easy about the girl's background and what has really happened.

A nightclub called Easy's open house in the East 80s, New York City, and the surrounding streets at night

Characters: Barry Craig, Ann Kelly, Easy, Osborne, the client, Hotel and Rogers

Listen for: A mysterious job involving a puppet, an unconscious dancer, evasive answers from a nightclub owner, and questions about whether things are what they seem

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.