Swan Song: The Whistler (December 11, 1949)

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“Swan Song” is an episode of The Whistler, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 11, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Mona Barrett, a nightclub singer at the Swan Club, is angry at Charlie Flavo, a new partner who has humiliated her. Her partner Jeff Williams resents Charlie's presence, and Brad Roberts warns Charlie to stay away from his sister Sharon. Mona begins to plan Charlie's death, moving Sharon into her apartment and inviting the others to a dinner party. The episode is a Whistler mystery broadcast on CBS on 1949-12-11, featuring Joan Banks, Mark Lawrence, Gloria Hunter and Wally Mayer. The story is told with the Whistler as narrator.

A nightclub called the Swan Club and an apartment in Los Angeles

Characters: Mona Barrett, Jeff Williams, Charlie Flavo, Sharon Roberts, Brad Roberts

Listen for: The whistle that identifies the Signal Oil program, The Whistler

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.