Youth Takes The Headlines: The Green Hornet (March 26, 1946)

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“Youth Takes The Headlines” is an episode of The Green Hornet, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 26, 1946. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

A juvenile gang has been committing robberies across the city, drawing front-page attention from the Daily Sentinel. Sixteen-year-old Bob Hobart, the son of respectable parents, has been drawn into the group against his will by a bigger boy named Joey. Bob is afraid to back out, and he is troubled when he learns the gang means to meet at a jukebox cafe after closing. Meanwhile, the Green Hornet pays him a visit at home to learn what the gang plans. The episode is part of The Green Hornet radio series, first broadcast on March 26, 1946.

A city in the 1940s, including the offices of the Daily Sentinel, the Hobart home on the west side, a movie theater, and a jukebox cafe.

Characters: Green Hornet, Bob Hobart, Joey, Vic Reed, Lenore Case, Mr. Axford, Mrs. Hobart, Mr. Hobart

Listen for: Bob Hobart's growing fear as he is pulled into Joey's gang, and the Green Hornet's visit to his bedroom.

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.