Life Line: Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator (November 7, 1954)

“Life Line” is an episode of Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 7, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Investigator Barrie Craig is approached by Norma Baron, a frightened young woman worried about her boyfriend Chris Tchaikovsky, who carries a gun and seems headed toward self-destruction. Craig tails Chris to a movie theater where the nervous young man flees through a fire exit, and after confronting him in an alley, Craig discovers Chris is carrying an illegal gun and may be planning a robbery.

A diner called Dolan's, city streets, the Odian movie theater, an alley, and a warehouse loading platform

Characters: Barrie Craig, Norma Baron, Chris Tchaikovsky, Dolan, Maisie and Sam Guinness

Listen for: Craig's attempts to get Chris to confess details of a planned robbery, and the revelation of Chris's facial scarring from a childhood fire that has shaped his self-image and troubles

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.