Sabotage: Let George Do It (August 25, 1952)

“Sabotage” is an episode of Let George Do It, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 25, 1952. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

George Valentine is hired by ACME Mining and Smelting Company to investigate sabotage at their tin mines in Bolivia that's slowing production and threatening America's defense program. A ore train carrying hundreds of tons of tin disappeared en route from the mines to the coast, and George, posing as a news photographer, teams up with his secretary Brooksie and a local pilot named Jose to search for it from the air.

Bolivia, South America - ACME Mining Company office in town and the surrounding Bolivian landscape with mountain mines and railroad routes

Characters: George Valentine, Brooksie (Miss Brooks), Mr. Carter, Mr. Burke, Jose

Listen for: George and Jose taking to the air in Jose's plane to search for the missing ore train along the mountain railroad route

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.