Sealed Instructions: Box 13 (1948)

“Sealed Instructions” is an episode of Box 13, the old-time radio show, first broadcast in 1948. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Dan Holiday receives an urgent letter offering $10,000 to retrieve something mysterious from Manila for a nervous, reclusive man named Joseph Krell. Holiday agrees to the errand, sewn a sealed envelope into his jacket lining with instructions, and travels to the Philippines. Upon arriving at the contact's address in Manila, Holiday discovers the man is dead, and he finds himself facing the local police with no answers and a dangerous situation unfolding.

A crowded neighborhood on Carson Street, and later Manila in the Philippine Islands

Characters: Dan Holiday, Joseph Krell, Lieutenant Keith, Sergeant Enrique Coddas, Susie, Carlos

Listen for: The mystery of what's in the sealed envelope and why Krell's contact has been killed

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.