The Moving Target: Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator (February 16, 1955)

“The Moving Target” is an episode of Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator, the old-time radio show, first broadcast February 16, 1955. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Barry Craig is hired by Bertram Finley, a nervous man who has spent eight months abroad preparing hotel site reports for the Anzio Calcun Hotel Land Development Corporation. Finley claims he has survived mysterious accidents and attacks during his travels to Honduras, the Belgian Congo, and a remote village, and now fears for his safety back in New York. Craig investigates the company and its operations to determine whether Finley is genuinely in danger or caught up in something more sinister.

New York City, including the docks at Pier 82, a coffee shop, the offices of Anzio Calcun Hotel Land Development Corporation off Park Road, and the Yankee Doodle Hotel on the Lower Bowery.

Characters: Barry Craig, Bertram Finley, Cupy Marina

Listen for: The dramatic account of Finley's overseas misadventures, including his arrest as a spy and escape via tidal wave; a near-fatal encounter with a black touring car in the street; and Craig's discovery of the mysterious hotel company's true intentions.

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.