What happens
Britt Reid, publisher of the Sentinel, and his valet Cato are drawn into a bitter city election. Reid, who acts in secret as the Green Hornet, watches as the machine politician Harder tries to buy the votes of the Fifth Ward while his opponent Bradford campaigns for mayor. Harder's henchman Curly is handling the payoffs, and the Sentinel's staff reports on the rising tension around Bradford's street-corner speech. The episode is from The Green Hornet radio series, first broadcast on October 9, 1940, and its opening scenes set the stakes of the race for the Fifth Ward.
A city in the midst of a mayoral election, with the Sentinel newspaper offices, political headquarters, and the Fifth Ward streets
Characters: Britt Reid, Cato, Harder, Curly, Bradford, Reed, Casey, Lorry
Listen for: The bribery of Fifth Ward voters and the approach of Bradford's street-corner speech
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.