The Kurt Bower Murder Case: Broadway Is My Beat (October 20, 1951)

“The Kurt Bower Murder Case” is an episode of Broadway Is My Beat, the old-time radio show, first broadcast October 20, 1951. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Detective Clover investigates art collector Mr. Hanson's warning that his wife Nola may come to harm. Hanson hints at danger from Kurt Bauer, a young European skier Nola has befriended, or from his daughter Connie, who harbors jealousy toward her stepmother. As Clover gathers statements from those involved, the tension mounts around what threat actually faces Nola.

New York City, primarily an art collector's home filled with antiquities and a Rockefeller Plaza ice skating rink

Characters: Detective Clover, Mr. Hanson, Nola Hanson, Kurt Bauer, Connie Hanson

Listen for: The detective's investigation into cryptic warnings of violence; the conflicted emotions surrounding the beautiful but troubled Nola Hanson; Kurt Bauer's involvement with the family.

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.