{"podcast":{"title":"The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas","slug":"the-great-detectives-of-old-time-radio-daily-mystery-dramas-162279","podcast_index_feed_id":162279,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/4607052/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/otr-detective-the-great-detectives-of-ol","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/70809e24fe2019aecf85b00b4ec6c3cc.jpg","author":"Adam Graham","episode_count":1000,"summary":"Are you ready for a mystery? Get ready to unleash your inner sleuth. Every day Monday-Saturday, we feature a different detective audio drama from the Golden Age of Radio. Our current mystery-solving line-up of radio detectives includes The Adventures of the Falcon, Charlie Chan, Broadway's My Beat, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, and Dragnet. Whether you want to listen to a mystery before going to sleep or enjoy some drama while driving, or just feel nostalgia for old-school radio fiction, we have you covered with six audio dramas every week. Podcast Award finalist Host Adam Graham has been your guide through dozens of old-time radio detective series since 2009. He provides insightful commentary and humor after each episode and responds to listener questions and feedback. You can subscribe to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from your favorite podcast app or by visiting our website at http://www.greatdetectives.net . We are currently in our fifteenth season of provided suspenseful mystery dramas. Our podcast feed captures the last 1,000 episodes we've released including all of seasons thirteen and fourteen, and part of season twelve. We have created two archive feeds: Volume 1, w…","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T14:17:29.582006+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-great-detectives-of-old-time-radio-daily-mystery-dramas-162279"},"episode":{"title":"The Big Story: More Tragic than Murder (EP5027)","slug":"the-big-story-more-tragic-than-murder-ep5027","published_at":"2026-07-28T07:00:03+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-great-detectives-of-old-time-radio-daily-mystery-dramas-162279/the-big-story-more-tragic-than-murder-ep5027","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-great-detectives-of-old-time-radio-daily-mystery-dramas-162279","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-big-story-more-tragic-than-murder-ep5027--73208258","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdcn.co/e/pdrl.fm/997ffb/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73208258/gd5027.mp3","summary":"Today's Mystery: When rumors spread through rural Kansas that a woman has concealed her mother's death for years, Hiawatha Daily World reporter Virgil Hill uncovers a heartbreaking truth that proves far more tragic than murder. Original Radio Broadcast: April 25, 1951 Originating from New York Starring Bill Lipton as Virgil HillAlso featuring Agnes Young, Ethel Owen, James Stevens, Bill Smith, Charles Eggleston, Bill Griffiths, and Jason Johnson Support the podcast monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Patreon Supporter of the Day: Stuart, Patreon supporter since November 2022 Support the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.net Mail a donation to:Adam Graham PO Box 15913 Boise, ID 83715Take our listener survey at https://survey.greatdetectives.net Give us a call: 208-991-4783 Follow us on Instagram at https://instagram.com/greatdetectives Follow us on Twitter/X at https://twitter.com/radiodetectives Join us again next time for another true newspaper story on The Big Story.","meta_description":"Today's Mystery: When rumors spread through rural Kansas that a woman has concealed her mother's death for years, Hiawatha Daily World reporter Virgil Hil…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2011,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-great-detectives-of-old-time-radio-daily-mystery-dramas-162279/episodes/the-big-story-more-tragic-than-murder-ep5027/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-great-detectives-of-old-time-radio-daily-mystery-dramas-162279/the-big-story-more-tragic-than-murder-ep5027.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}