The Bob Foster Murder Case: Broadway Is My Beat (November 8, 1952)

“The Bob Foster Murder Case” is an episode of Broadway Is My Beat, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 8, 1952. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Detective Danny Clover discovers the skeleton of Bob Foster buried in the cellar of a condemned building scheduled for demolition. Foster disappeared five years ago after allegedly stealing his nightclub partner's payroll. The investigation leads Clover to Joe Turner, Foster's former partner at the Blue Sheen nightclub, who has since become a broken man living on skid row.

New York City, November; a condemned nightclub building being demolished, a skid row bar called the Jukebox and Fat Cat, and Ms. Devlin's apartment

Characters: Detective Danny Clover, Bob Foster, Joe Turner, Aggie Blaine, Ms. Devlin

Listen for: The noir atmosphere of Broadway at night, Joe Turner's fractured confessions about Foster's theft and the nightclub's failure, and Detective Clover's methodical questioning as the mystery unfolds

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.