Anna Norquist: The Six Shooter (May 6, 1954)

“Anna Norquist” is an episode of The Six Shooter, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 6, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

A Swedish woman named Anna Norquist arrives by train in a small Western town to marry Peter Calgren, a man she has been corresponding with for two years who promised to send her money to come to America. She encounters Brit Ponson, the Six-Shooter, and learns that Peter has been arrested for murdering a man named Seth Quincy and is scheduled to be hanged the following Monday. Anna must grapple with the shock that her intended husband is accused of a serious crime.

A small Western town in the territories, around the railroad depot and main street, in the early morning after a murder

Characters: Brit Ponson (the Six-Shooter), Anna Norquist, Peter Calgren, Marshall Burke, Seth Quincy, Mrs. Henderson, Clyde Henderson, Willie

Listen for: The revelation that Peter Calgren, the man Anna came to marry, is in jail awaiting execution for murder, and Brit's growing suspicion that something may not be as straightforward as it seems

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.