Wanted for Murder: Broadway Is My Beat (April 18, 1953)

“Wanted for Murder” is an episode of Broadway Is My Beat, the old-time radio show, first broadcast April 18, 1953. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Detective Danny Covert interviews Myra Fuller, who discovered that her fiancé Ernest Lane—a man she's known only a few months—is wanted for murder in connection with his wife's death in 1950. When she refuses to reveal Lane's whereabouts, Covert has her followed to learn where she leads them.

New York City, primarily Broadway and police headquarters, with scenes in bars, parks, apartments, and the subway

Characters: Detective Danny Covert, Myra Fuller, Ernest Lane, Lieutenant, Detective Denison, Detective Muglevin, Genoa

Listen for: The poetic, atmospheric narration of Broadway life in springtime; the moral dilemma of a woman caught between love and duty; the stakeout procedures of 1950s detective work.

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.