Uncle Bens Widow: The Whistler (September 15, 1948)

“Uncle Bens Widow” is an episode of The Whistler, the old-time radio show, first broadcast September 15, 1948. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Monica Dawson, recovering at the Crestview Sanatorium after a car accident, is visited by Aemon Schlegel, a cyclist who claims he witnessed what happened the night her husband, Ben Kittredge, died. Through a flashback, the story follows how Monica met the older Ben in a San Francisco cocktail lounge, quickly won his proposal, and grew close to his nephew Brad, heir to the Kittredge steamship fortune. Schlegel now threatens to reveal what he saw, and Monica must decide how to protect her position and her plans.

San Francisco and the nearby Crestview Sanatorium on Mount Tamalpais, plus a freighter at sea off Central America

Characters: Monica Dawson, Ben Kittredge, Brad Kittredge, Aemon Schlegel, Dr. Fenn

Listen for: Monica's interactions with Aemon Schlegel at the sanatorium and her conversations with Brad aboard the freighter

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.