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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Charlie Chan: Escaped Musician (EP4817)

The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Adam Graham

Drama, Arts, Fiction, Performing Arts

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Today's Mystery: A musician is implicated in a burglary that led to murder.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1950 or 1951

Originating from Sydney

Starring: William Rees as Charlie Chan; Rodney Jacobs

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The Welcome to the great detectives of old-time radio.

0:33.7

From Boise, Idaho, this is your host, Adam Graham.

0:38.1

In a moment, we're going to bring you this week's episode of Charlie Chan.

0:43.4

But first, I do want to encourage you to check out our other podcast,

0:47.3

and I'm highlighting the Old Time Radio Snackwagon at snackwagon.net,

0:53.5

where every week we bring you a bot-sized bit of old-time

0:58.2

radio goodness across a wide variety of different genres. You might tune in one day and hear a

1:05.1

sports story, and the next week it might be a comedy or a a drama or an offbeat music program.

1:12.9

You never know quite what we'll serve up, but it'll be good.

1:16.6

Check it out, snackwagon.net.

1:19.0

Now we return to an episode of Charlie Chan that aired during the 1950-51 radio series.

1:26.7

The episode is entitled

1:28.3

Escape

1:29.3

Musician

1:30.2

The Incompan The Incomparable Charlie Chan.

1:54.5

We proudly present the incomparable Charlie Chan in a new exciting series.

2:01.4

Join this famous detective as he combines the wisdom of the East and the Science of the West

2:06.6

in a dramatic chapter from The Adventures of Charlie Chan.

2:16.2

Charlie Chan, hungry vigil, good evening, and extend warm welcome.

2:23.3

Ancient Goddard proclaims, the stakes like weeds will grow in any soil.

2:30.2

Tonight, we meet mistakes that almost ended in murder.

2:35.2

Listen to, please, fancy.

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