The Robin Forrest Murder Case: Broadway Is My Beat (May 23, 1953)

“The Robin Forrest Murder Case” is an episode of Broadway Is My Beat, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 23, 1953. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Detective Danny Clover investigates a drunk woman found with a bloody knife in her purse near midnight. She turns out to be Joan Tracy, the wife of a concerned man who arrives at headquarters. After a tense confrontation, Joan appears unstable and threatens violence. Investigation reveals she left a village nightclub with a man named Robin Forrest, who rents an attic room nearby.

New York City: police headquarters, village streets, the Crocodile Club on Bank Street, a corner rooming house with an attic room

Characters: Detective Danny Clover, Lieutenant Mugaven, Joan Tracy, Harold Tracey, Marty (taxi driver), Club manager, Robin Forrest

Listen for: The atmospheric opening description of Broadway at night; the tense interrogation scenes at headquarters; the cab driver's account of picking up Joan Tracy; the discovery of Robin Forrest's whereabouts.

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.