Journey Into Hate: Let George Do It (February 21, 1949)

“Journey Into Hate” is an episode of Let George Do It, the old-time radio show, first broadcast February 21, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Private investigator George Valentine receives a frantic cable from Janice Gibson asking him to travel to Hawaii immediately to help her sister Colleen, who has become convinced that people around her are plotting to kill her. George and his assistant Brooke board a ship to Honolulu, where they meet Colleen's husband Marcel Millet on the dock. Marcel reveals that Colleen has developed paranoid delusions and imagines grotesque conspiracies against her, and he hopes George can help uncover what is troubling his wife.

Aboard the ocean liner Udara traveling to Hawaii, and the docks of Honolulu leading to a private island

Characters: George Valentine, Brooke, Janice Gibson, Colleen, Marcel Millet, Ship's Doctor

Listen for: George's witty banter with Brooke as they embark on the mystery, the revelation of Colleen's mysterious mental state, and Marcel's account of his wife's paranoid delusions

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.