The Jan Brueghel Matter (The Flowering Judas Matter): Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (July 6, 1954)

“The Jan Brueghel Matter (The Flowering Judas Matter)” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast July 6, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar is hired to recover a valuable painting that was stolen from an art gallery. A man has approached the gallery owner with the painting and arranged to sell it back, and Dollar must identify both the artwork and the mysterious seller. Dollar tracks down Selena Jeffers, a young woman from the painting's original owning family, hoping she will help him identify the work when the sale takes place.

An art gallery and later a bluff overlooking Lake St. Clair

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Mr. Masterson, Hackeron, Selena Jeffers

Listen for: The arrangement for Dollar to meet the painting's seller and complete the recovery of the stolen artwork

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.