Hudson Bay Incident: The Whistler (March 7, 1954)

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“Hudson Bay Incident” is an episode of The Whistler, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 7, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Elliot Bradley, head of the Bradley Metal Processing Company, hosts a secret conference at the Hudson Bay Hunting Lodge with Bernardo Nagashi of Middle Eastern Metals Limited over the rare metal britannium. His personal secretary, Charles Reeves, and Bradley's wife, Pauline, are involved in a tangled personal affair while the two men go hunting together. The story is told as an episode of The Whistler, an old-time radio drama series, and its original air date was March 7, 1954. The cast is not named in the transcript.

The Hudson Bay Hunting Lodge, a secret business conference venue in the early 1950s

Characters: Elliot Bradley, Bernardo Nagashi, Charles Reeves, Pauline Bradley, Kincaid

Listen for: The gunshot during the hunting trip and the phone call from Washington

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.