Other Woman: The Whistler (November 22, 1942)

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“Other Woman” is an episode of The Whistler, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 22, 1942. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Olivia Martin learns that her husband Fred Martin, an advertising man, has been seeing another woman and wants a divorce. In a despairing note, she vows to deal with the rival herself. Her plan to meet the woman, Doris Hammond, Fred's secretary, takes shape through a flight arranged on Fred's behalf. This is an episode of The Whistler, a CBS radio mystery series, first broadcast on November 22, 1942. The lead actors are not named in the transcript.

New York, and the surrounding countryside on a stormy autumn night, in 1942

Characters: Olivia Martin, Fred Martin, Doris Hammond, Rita Bartow, Jack Mallory, Captain Evans, Lieutenant Davis, Doc Sanders

Listen for: The conversation between Olivia and Fred in the bedroom, and Olivia's pointed talk with Doris on the plane

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.