The Barbara Hunt Murder Case: Broadway Is My Beat (May 16, 1953)

“The Barbara Hunt Murder Case” is an episode of Broadway Is My Beat, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 16, 1953. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Police detective Danny Clover investigates an attempted murder on New York's Broadway. A woman named Barbara Hunt is found shot in her upstairs apartment by a real estate agent, and Clover begins interviewing those connected to her, including the rental broker Tierney, her husband Nick Hunt, and a friend named Mrs. Billy Scott.

New York City, including an apartment building on East Sixtieth Street and a real estate broker's office

Characters: Danny Clover, police detective, Barbara Hunt, shooting victim, Mr. Adams, real estate client, John Tierney, real estate broker, Nicki Hunt, Barbara's husband, Mrs. Billy Scott, Barbara's friend

Listen for: The mysterious circumstances surrounding Barbara Hunt's past as a dancer from the 1920s and why someone would want to harm her now.

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.