Dr.Roebling And The Voice Machine Part 02: The Adventures of Superman (July 30, 1941)

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“Dr.Roebling And The Voice Machine Part 02” is an episode of The Adventures of Superman, the old-time radio show, first broadcast July 30, 1941. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Clark Kent and Jimmy Olsen, reporters for the Daily Planet, look into the disappearance of Dr. Robling, a famous inventor, from a locked train drawing room. Kent, who is secretly Superman, has already been arrested after forcing the door, and the two men follow the trail to Martin City. Their search turns up a young woman who says she is Robling's daughter, and a hotel registration that may hold a link to the missing man. The episode is the second part of a serial in The Adventures of Superman, first broadcast on July 30, 1941. Its stars are not named in the transcript, so they are not given here.

A fast express train heading to Metropolis, and later the city of Martin City

Characters: Clark Kent, Superman, Jimmy Olsen, Dr. Robling, Lois Lane, Harry White, Conductor, Miss Robling

Listen for: The hotel room 514 that Superman enters at the end, and the identity of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Smith

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.