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The Big Story|Old Time Radio Mysteries episodes
- Feature Assignment: The Majczek CaseToday's Mystery:A mother who has worked as a scrub woman for 13 years offers a large reward to absolve her son of a Chicago cop's murder.
Audition Date: February 6, 1946
Originating from New York
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Follow us on Twitter @radiodetectives38 min - The Big Story: The Case of the Final CurtainToday's Mystery: A woman suspects that her father was poisoned in a nursing home.
Original Radio Broadcast: December 7, 1947
Originating from New York
Starring: Les Tremayne as Aubrey Maddock; Alice Reinhart; Ted Osborn; Agnes Young; John Gibson; Will GeerWindsor
Historical Society article on the murders: https://windsorhistoricalsociety.org/amy-archer-gilligan-entrepreneurism-gone-wrong-in-windsor/
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Follow us on Twitter @radiodetectives35 min - The Big Story: The Case of the Unfinished Love SongToday's Mystery: Howard Beaufait of The Cleveleand News reinvestigates the case of a violin-playing convicted killer who claims innocence and whose wife also believes him.
Original Radio Broadcast: November 26, 1947
Originating from New York
Starring: Craig McDonnell; John Sylvester; Francis De Sales; Eileen Heckart; Luise Barkley
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Follow us on Twitter @radiodetectives34 min - The Big Story: The Bobby-Sox Kid from BayonneToday's Mystery: Dorothy Kilgaren is called in to investigate the killing-by-hatchet of a woman; police suspect her seventeen-year-old daughter.
Original Radio Broadcast: October 15, 1947
Originating from New York
Starring: Janet Fox as Dorothy Kilgaren; Burt Brazier; Francis De Sales; Jerry Lewis; Mitzi Gould; Eleanor Audley
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Follow us on Twitter@radiodetectives36 min - The Big Story: The Case of the Countrefeit CoinsToday's Mystery:Reporter Jack Adams goes undercover in a gang of counterfeiters to catch the man at the top.
Original Radio Broadcast: October 19, 1947
Originating from New York
Starring: Dwight Weist as Jack Adams; Mason Adams; Larry Haines; Richard Keith; Eileen Heckart; James Boles; Jackson Beck
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Follow us on Twitter @radiodetectives32 min - The Big Story: The Thirteenth KeyToday's Mystery:A Columbus reporter investigates the brutal stabbing death of a woman found at a shooting range
.Original Radio Broadcast: June 4, 1947
Originating from New York
Starring: John Gibson as James Fusco of the Columbus Citizen; James McCallion; Gilbert Mack; Ward Wilson; Horace Braham; Connie Lembke; Janet Fox
Related: Columbus Underground article on the true story behind this week's episode. (NSFW)
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Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.37 min
About The Big Story|Old Time Radio Mysteries
From the publisher's feed
The first half of the twentieth century was a golden age of American journalism. Major cities supported multiple competing newspapers, many issuing several editions a day. Print magazines flourished.…
In that competitive landscape, reporters often pursued stories with fearless determination—uncovering corruption, confronting criminal enterprises, and helping to solve real cases that shaped public life.
The Big Story (1947–1955) brought these accounts to radio, dramatizing true reporting drawn from newspapers across the country. Performed by New York’s finest radio talent, the series honored the craft of investigative journalism and the people who practiced it. The program inspired a television adaptation, which ran from 1949–1957.
In this podcast feed, host Adam Graham presents all known circulating episodes of The Big Story, offering listeners a vivid window into the era when journalism was both a calling and a public trust.
The Big Story (1947–1955) brought these accounts to radio, dramatizing true reporting drawn from newspapers across the country. Performed by New York’s finest radio talent, the series honored the craft of investigative journalism and the people who practiced it. The program inspired a television adaptation, which ran from 1949–1957.
In this podcast feed, host Adam Graham presents all known circulating episodes of The Big Story, offering listeners a vivid window into the era when journalism was both a calling and a public trust.