The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 3

By Adam GrahamArts Performing Arts

The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 3 episodes

January 13, 2025 Dragnet: The Big Building (EP1916)
Original Release Date: June 18, 2016

The wealthy wife of a dentist has disappeared and foul play is suspected.

Original Air Date: June 14, 1951

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30 min
January 12, 2025 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Only One Butt Matter (EP1915)
Original Release Date: June 17, 2016

Johnny is hired to track down the daughter of a wealthy woman with promise of a big payoff.

Original Air Date: July 5, 1959

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23 min
January 11, 2025 Boston Blackie: Mrs. Boston Blackie (EP1914)
Original Release Date: June 16, 2016

A friend of Blackie’s is blackmailed by a woman named Mrs. Boston Blackie.

Original Air Date: June 4, 1945

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35 min
January 11, 2025 Richard Diamond: The Ralph Chase Case (EP1913)
Original Release Date: June 15, 2016

The executor of a wealthy young heiress’ estate calls Diamond in when he fears his niece is about to marry an unsavory character.

Original Air Date: May 15, 1949

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34 min
January 11, 2025You Might Also Like: ZOE Science & Nutrition
Introducing How to lower cholesterol in 10 days | Prof. Sarah Berry from ZOE Science & Nutrition.
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Forty percent of people in the UK and US have high cholesterol. Knowing how to lower it can be confusing. In today’s episode, we simplify the science of cholesterol, drawing from ZOE’s 2021 PREDICT study, which explored its link to the gut microbiome.
Dr. Sarah Berry explains the differences between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ cholesterol, discusses how cholesterol can impact your health, and shares tips on maintaining healthy cholesterol levels.
Sarah is a professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at King's College London and Chief Scientist at ZOE. She is also the lead nutritional scientist on the PREDICT program.
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Timecodes
00:00 Introduction
01:40 Quickfire questions
04:01 What is cholesterol?
05:50 LDL vs HDL cholesterol
11:35 How diet affects cholesterol
13:55 Which fats should you increase?
16:00 Why do some people have high LDL levels?
18:40 The gut microbiome and cholesterol
20:37 What is ApoB?
24:00 Why don’t all doctors measure ApoB?
25:50 Why triglycerides matter to your health
29:30 Triglycerides and post-meal responses
30:45 Which foods can help lower cholesterol?
33:20 Saturated fat explained
35:30 How refined carbs affect cholesterol
39:50 Can you trust ‘low fat’ food labels?
41:15 The benefits of whole grain carbohydrates and fibre
45:03 Sarah’s personal view on statins
48:13 Cholesterol levels in postmenopausal women

Books by our ZOE Scientists:
Every Body Should Know This by Dr Federica Amati
Food For Life by Prof. Tim Spector
Fibre Fuelled by Dr Will Bulsiewicz
Free resources from ZOE:
Live Healthier: Top 10 Tips From ZOE Science & Nutrition
Gut Guide - for a healthier microbiome in weeks
Mentioned in today's episode
What are triglycerides and why do you need them
Does variation in serum LDL-cholesterol response to dietary fatty acids help explain the controversy over fat quality and cardiovascular disease risk? Atherosclerosis VOL 328
Determination of variability in serum low-density lipoprotein cholesterol response to the replacement of dietary saturated fat with unsaturated fat, Proceedings of the Nutrition Society.
Dietary saturated fat and cholesterol: cracking the myths around eggs and cardiovascular disease, J Nutr Sci. 2023
The effects of probiotics on total cholesterol, Medicine (Baltimore)
Microbiome connections with host metabolism and habitual diet from 1,098 deeply phenotyped individuals (Zoe’s PREDICT study)

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58 min
January 10, 2025 The Avenger: Diploma of Death (EP1912)
Original Release Date: June 14, 2016

While visiting Fern’s Alma Mater, Jim witnesses a runner murdered at a track meet.

Original Air Date: March 28, 1946

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30 min
January 10, 2025 You Might Also Like: Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast
Introducing Case #19: Jose from Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast.
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At 18, Jose faced a whirlwind of hospital visits, severe abdominal pain, and debilitating fatigue. Having already given up his dream of becoming a professional boxer and now risking his education, Jose was desperate for answers. At his lowest point, the fighter in him emerged, pushing him and his mom to seek solutions before the unknown illness could take even more from his life.
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38 min
January 10, 2025 Michael Shayne: The Pursuit of Death (EP1911)
Original Release Date: June 13, 2016

Mike tries to help a woman who is afraid someone is out to kill her.

Original Air Date: Sometime in 1948

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31 min
January 10, 2025 You Might Also Like: ZOE Science & Nutrition
Introducing Is your gut microbiome preventing weight loss? | Dr. Suzanne Devkota and Prof. Tim Spector from ZOE Science & Nutrition.
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Belly fat is more than just stubborn weight – it plays a complex role in our health, interacting with the immune system and gut bacteria. But could gut microbes hold the key to understanding and managing belly fat?
In this episode, Dr. Suzanne Devkota, Director of the Microbiome Research Institute at Cedars-Sinai, shares groundbreaking findings on how gut bacteria interact with belly fat. Tim Spector, professor of epidemiology and scientific co-founder at ZOE, also joins the conversation to explain how the diversity of your gut bacteria affects weight and overall health.
Together, our guests share surprising ways the microbiome influences fat storage and offer practical tips for supporting gut health.

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Timecodes
00:00 The risks of internal fat
01:45 Quickfire questions
03:12 What is belly fat?
04:30 How dangerous is internal fat?
05:44 How our body uses belly fat
16:20 Groundbreaking study on gut bacteria
21:05 These gut bacteria live in your fat tissue
24:50 Gut health and your immune system
31:58 Why microbes are essential to survive
38:30 Why gut health starts at birth
46:40 The importance of sampling your gut microbes
50:50 Two changes you can make right now
53:02 Easy fermented eating tips
55:10 Why not all pickles are fermented

📚Books by our ZOE Scientists
The Food For Life Cookbook
Every Body Should Know This by Dr Federica Amati
Food For Life by Prof. Tim Spector

Free resources from ZOE
Live Healthier: Top 10 Tips From ZOE Science & Nutrition
Gut Guide - For a Healthier Microbiome in Weeks

Mentioned in today's episode
Translocation of Viable Gut Microbiota to Mesenteric Adipose Drives Formation of Creeping Fat in Humans (2020), published in Cell
Our extended microbiome: The human-relevant metabolites and biology of fermented foods (2024), published in Cell Metabolism
Effects of a personalized nutrition program on cardiometabolic health: a randomized controlled trial (2024), published in Nature
Heritable components of the human fecal microbiome are associated with visceral fat (2016) published in Genome Biology
Dissecting the role of the gut microbiota and diet on visceral fat mass accumulation (2019), published in Scientific Reports

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January 09, 2025 Screen Guild Theater: The Maltese Falcon (EP1910s)
Original Release Date: June 12, 2016

In this 1943 adaptation of the original hardboiled detective story: Miles Archer, the partner of Sam Spade (played by Humphrey Bogart) is killed while shadowing someone for a client ( Mary Astor.) When the man Archer was shadowing is killed, the police suspect Spade. Spade must find Archer’s killer and to do it he has to match wits against dangerous international criminals (Peter Lorre and Sidney Greenstreet.)

Original Air Date: September 20, 1943

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34 min

About The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 3

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Adam Graham continues his journey through Old Time Radio Detective programs from their first available adventure to their final bow in Seasons 7-9 which were released between 2015 and 2018, featuring…

nearly 1,000 Old Time Radio episodes. You can listen to the current podcast feed of The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio here.

Picking up where we left off at the end of Volume 2, Volume 3 begins by continuing Michael Shayne, Private Detective with Wally Maher, Crime Files of Flammond, The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, Nick Carter, Master Detective, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar with Bob Bailey, and Dragnet.

In this volume, we'll hear these Golden Age Classics:

The hard-boiled New Orleans-based New Adventures of Michael Shayne with Jeff Chandler
The detective series in which Basil Rathbone plays himself called Tales of Fatima
The Shadow knock-off detective series The Avenger
The Rex Harrison-helmed Adventure-Detective Series, The Private Files of Rex Saunders
The Mercedes McCambridge legal thriller series Defense Attorney
Dick Powell as Richard Diamond, Private Detective
The Boston Blackie radio series. We feature episodes both with the Screen Boston Blackie Chester Morris as well as RIchard Kollmar, who'd star in the long-running Syndicated Boston Blackie radio series
Frank Lovejoy stars in Night Beat which tell the adventures of newspaper Columnist Randy Stone as he uncovers mystery and human drama in his after-dark vigil.
The Mike Hammer radio series That Hammer Guy
New York-based Yours Truly Johnny Dollar radio episodes that bring the character into the 1960s with stars Bob Readkick and Mandel Kramer
The Frank Sinatra Detective series where he plays Rocky Fortune a young man in search of steady employment who finds himself involved in mysteries instead.
The longest-running Golden Age radio detective series Mister Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons
The Adventures of Rocky Jordan in Cairo, Egypt as mystery, intrigue and adventure find him at the Cafe Tambourine

Also listen to even more obscure series such as ABC Mystery Theater, The Judge, Bishop and the Garogyle, That Strong Guy, Hollywood Mystery Time, The Airmail Mystery. We also feature episodes of series we previously played but found more episodes for including The Line-Up, Pursuit, Manhunt, Man from Homicide, Let George Do It, and more.

Also listen for specials starring Jeff Chandler, Mercedes McCambridge, Pat O'Brien, Orson Welles, Alan Ladd, Red Skelton, Myrna Loy, Frank Lovejoy, Lionel Barrymore, Roy Rogers. We feature Jack Webb in detective comedy parodies with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, and Bob Hope. We feature adaptations of the classic mystery novels The Moonstone and Trent's Last Case as well as a Lord Peter Whimsey story.