The London Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (June 22, 1950)

“The London Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast June 22, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar is sent to England to track narcotics that may have been packed in the trunks of film director Broderick Green and actress Dorothy Rivers. Dollar boards a ship to monitor Lorraine Miller, the couple's confidential secretary traveling with the trunks, and discovers her brother is also aboard. As the voyage progresses, Johnny finds Miller behaving mysteriously and learns from the ship's detective that a passenger named Miles Fanning—wanted by federal agents—is also on the crossing.

Aboard the SS Maristown traveling from New York to Southampton, England in 1950, and briefly in Los Angeles and New York.

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Lorraine Miller, Broderick Green, Dorothy Rivers, Team Anne Nelson, Clarence Dawn, Miles Fanning, Lorraine Miller's brother

Listen for: The mystery of what Lorraine Miller knows about the narcotics operation, the identity and intentions of Miles Fanning, and whether Miller's brother is involved in smuggling.

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.