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Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Ep.13 The Adventures of Philip Marlowe: The Kid on the Corner

Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Stevie K.

Detective, Fiction, Crime, Arts, Radio Show, Mystery, Tv & Film, Performing Arts, Drama, Old Time Radio

4.8588 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road and those who travel it wind up in the gutter, the prison or the grave. Philip Marlowe was Los Angeles's toughest detective in the groundbreaking series by Raymond Chandler that helped establish the "hard-boiled" detective subgenre. The Kid on the Corner: Marlowe helps a newsboy find his missing uncle and uncovers a murder while doing so. Originally aired December 3rd, 1949. Support the show

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of nostalgic mystery radio.

0:20.2

I'm your host, Stevie Kay, and it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yesteryear.

0:25.6

And if you enjoy this podcast, I will be oh so appreciative if you give this channel a follow

0:31.2

or maybe tell a friend who also enjoy old-time radio like you and I.

0:36.6

For today's episode, I bring you Philip Marlowe and The Kid on the Corner originally aired December 3rd, 1949, where Marlowe helps a newsboy find his missing uncle and uncovers a murder while doing so. So sit back and relax, and I hope you enjoy this nostalgic mystery radio.

0:58.0

Thank you for listening.

0:58.9

Get this sucker get it straight.

1:12.9

Crime is a sucker's road, and those who travel it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave.

1:17.4

This time it started with a kid, hawking papers on Hollywood Boulevard,

1:21.0

and moved from there to a house full of hate on a quiet street,

1:24.0

a blonde liar on ice gates, and a corpse in a burned out shack. And it all wound

1:29.2

up right where it really began, in

1:31.3

the heart of the kid, on the corner.

1:34.7

From the pen

1:35.5

of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of

1:37.4

crime fiction, comes his most famous

1:39.2

character in The Adventures

1:41.4

of Philip Marlow.

1:51.5

Music The Adventures of Philip Marlowe. Now, with Gerald Moore, starred as Philip Marlowe,

1:54.7

we bring you tonight's exciting story, The Kid on the Corner.

2:15.6

Yeah. the kid on the corner. After a day jam full of heat waves in December,

2:19.0

actresses who passed mascara and long A's office talent

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