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Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Ep.443 Broadway Is My Beat: The Roberto Segura 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

🗓️ 31 July 2023

⏱️ 32 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 Nostalgia Mystery Radio.

0:21.7

I'm your host, Stevie K.

0:23.7

And it's my Anders bring you the radio show to yesteryear.

0:27.2

For this episode, I bring you, Broadway is My Beat, episode titled,

0:32.3

The Roberto Segura Murder Case, originally aired January 31st, 1950, where Roberto Segura's found night while

0:41.3

his girl plays a guitar nearby. So sit back and relax, and I hope you enjoy this nostalgic

0:49.1

mystery radio. Thank you for listening.

1:05.7

Broadway's My Beat, from Times Square to Columbus Circle,

1:10.4

the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world.

1:36.0

Broadway's My Beat, with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. Broadway, it's the end of the dream and the start of the wilderness,

1:39.6

the dumping ground of odds and ends and beginnings and leftovers.

1:43.1

It's a place to stop and take the kind of pleasure you need.

1:46.7

It's a street of neon names that beckons to your loneliness.

1:50.8

And you better hurry, kid, because it's a street where your name is written on water.

1:53.8

It's Broadway, my beat.

2:02.9

At 1145 on a January night, you look down on Broadway and watch it generate its own heat.

2:05.5

Like I was doing from my office window at headquarters.

2:08.5

Then a call came, from a shy caller.

2:10.0

He preferred to be anonymous, he said.

2:12.7

And he gave an address and he said, I'd better come there.

2:15.2

He said not to knock, to walk right in.

2:18.6

And his disguised voice couldn't disguise the urgency in it.

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