Podcasts Arts Performing Arts Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives) Episode 444 Noses for News (Casey, Crime Photographer, Big Town, Night Beat, & Hollywood Sound Stage)

Episode 444 Noses for News (Casey, Crime Photographer, Big Town, Night Beat, & Hollywood Sound Stage)

Published: July 4, 2021, 9:06 p.m.

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We\'re saluting the old time radio heroes of the fourth estate - reporters, editors, and photographers who solved the crimes they covered. We\'ll hear Staats Cotsworth as\\xa0Casey, Crime Photographer in "Death in Lover\'s Lane" (originally aired on CBS on August 7, 1947). Then, the staff of the\\xa0Illustrated Press hunts for a killer in "Death by Plan" from\\xa0Big Town (originally aired on NBC on November 9, 1948). Frank Lovejoy is Randy Stone in\\xa0Night Beat and "Wanna Buy a Story?" (originally aired on NBC on September 18, 1950). Finally, Dana Andrews stars in a radio adaptation of\\xa0Call Northside 777 - the true story of a reporter fighting to clear a wrongfully convicted man - from\\xa0Hollywood Sound Stage (originally aired on CBS on December 27, 1951).

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