Fodder for Headlines: The Green Hornet (June 10, 1947)

“Fodder for Headlines” is an episode of The Green Hornet, the old-time radio show, first broadcast June 10, 1947. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Britt Reid, publisher of the Daily Sentinel, investigates the gambling empire of Marty Slotkin with the help of prosecutor James Conway, whom he meets on a flight home from Chicago. When Conway's daughter Polly disappears, Reid, secretly the Green Hornet, must act quickly while Conway believes the Hornet is working with Slotkin. The Green Hornet series aired on June 10, 1947, and the broadcast is set in the city where Reid publishes his paper, with Kato assisting him in the Black Beauty.

A city with a gambling roadhouse run by Marty Slotkin, the Conway home, and the Daily Sentinel offices, with a trip to Chicago at the start.

Characters: Britt Reid, Kato, James Conway, Polly Conway, Marty Slotkin, Lenore Case, Mike Axford, Gunnegan

Listen for: Listen for the moment Conway believes the Green Hornet is working with Slotkin, and for the raid on Slotkin's gambling house.

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.