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Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Ep.180 Broadway Is My Beat: The Jane Darwell Murder Case

Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Stevie K.

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

4.8588 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Broadway is my Beat is a love affair with noir and hardboiled radio detective series blossomed during the 1940's. The golden age of radio had found a new following in the crime drama genre, and managed to churn out several note-worthy serializations. One of the more popular old time radio shows of the period was Broadway is my Beat which featured the talented Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. Clover truly loved his beat on the colorful and gritty streets of Broadway and it shined through ...

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of Nostolic Mystery Radio.

0:21.5

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

0:26.7

For this episode, I bring you, Broadway is My Beat, episode titled The Jane Darwell Murder Case,

0:33.6

originally aired August 11, 1949, where a scandal Jed Stacey has received the prophecy in the mail that Jane Darwell will be found murdered tonight.

0:45.3

So sit back and relax, and I hope you enjoy this nostalgic mystery lady out.

0:51.3

Thank you for listening.

0:57.2

The FBI and peace and war ordinarily heard at this time throughout the year is taking

1:02.5

its usual summer vacation and will return to CBS three weeks from tonight on September 1st.

1:10.1

Broadway's My Beat, from Times Square

1:12.6

to Columbus Circle, the gaudiest,

1:14.6

the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world. Broadway's My Beat with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.

1:39.8

Broadway, it's a journey some people have to make,

1:43.2

a journey that ends in a screaming, blinding, furnace of light,

1:46.6

or ends in darkness, cool and still.

1:49.3

You walk it with a quick puppet strut of slapstick,

1:52.2

or you walk it slow,

1:53.8

slow like the last walk you'll ever take.

1:56.5

Whatever way it is, it's my beat.

2:08.2

Broadway is full of people that are like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.

2:11.4

One of them, if you put them together right, will turn out to be Jed Stacey,

2:14.5

scandal reporter for a rag that reports scandals.

2:17.7

If it's a hot August evening and he's wearing his Hollywood shirt and yellow silk mohair pants,

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