The Man on the Roof: The Adventures of Philip Marlowe (April 4, 1950)

“The Man on the Roof” is an episode of The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, the old-time radio show, first broadcast April 4, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Private investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by an elderly Spanish woman named Señora Andrabi to help her son Pedro, who has been beaten and fired from his job at the Brucher-Fugh Company warehouse. Pedro was accused of involvement in hijackings of freight shipments, though his mother insists he is innocent. Marlowe visits the warehouse to investigate and encounters the mysterious Cori Haines, a glamorous redhead in a mink coat, along with the rough warehouse manager Connor who warns him to stay out of the matter.

Los Angeles, including a Spanish home and the Brucher-Fugh Company warehouse on Commercial Street in downtown LA

Characters: Philip Marlowe, Señora Andrabi, Pedro Andrabi, Alex Brucher, Connor, Cori Haines, Helen Castile

Listen for: Marlowe's investigation into the warehouse hijackings and his encounters with the mysterious Cori Haines and the threatening Connor; the mysterious phone call that changes Brucher's plans

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.