Come to the Casbah: Let George Do It (May 5, 1952)

“Come to the Casbah” is an episode of Let George Do It, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 5, 1952. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

George Valentine, a troubleshooter for hire, is approached by a French intelligence agent named Giacaro who enlists him to retrieve stolen plans. Posing as an English scientist named Professor Benham, George must travel to Algiers and meet a man named Faderock in the Casbah to obtain a package of documents. The agent provides George with coded recognition signals and a false identity card for the dangerous mission.

Paris and Algiers, including the Casbah marketplace

Characters: George Valentine, Angel Brooks, Giacaro, Faderock, Bill Turner

Listen for: The coded recognition sequence George must use to identify himself to Faderock in the Casbah shop—two short knocks and one long, followed by specific exchange phrases about souvenirs and the color scheme of a room.

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.