The Pearling Matter - Ep 4: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (June 21, 1956)

“The Pearling Matter - Ep 4” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast June 21, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar is hired to look into a matter involving David Pirling and discovers that Pirling has faked his own death in the newspapers to draw out his daughter Jeannie, who disappeared a year ago. When Brad Copeland, a detective working for Pirling, tips Dollar off that Jeannie has been found living in New Orleans under an assumed name, Dollar travels south to bring her home. Upon arriving at her address in the French Quarter, Dollar makes a shocking discovery.

New York and New Orleans, 1956

Characters: Johnny Dollar, David Pirling, Brad Copeland, Niall Zanewell, Jeannie Pirling, Janice Floyd, The blonde giant

Listen for: The mystery of Jeannie Pirling's disappearance and why her father staged his own death to find her; the suspicious phone call that led Copeland to locate her; the unexpected revelation at her apartment in the French Quarter.

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.