The Big Story: Forty Minutes to Meet a Deadline (EP5032)
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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas
32 min
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5 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're going to bring you this week's episode of The Big Story. But first, I want to encourage you, if you're enjoying the podcast, to please follow us using your favorite podcast software. And I want to encourage you to check out our other podcast, and today I'm highlighting Public Domain Video Theater, returning soon with our long overdue first episode of 2026, and hopefully continuing on from there. Check it out, videotheater.greatdetectives.net, or check out our YouTube channel as well at youtube.greatdetectives.net. But now, from July 25th, 1951, here is 40 Minutes to Meet a Deadline.
The Big Story Edward, what are you doing here?
The judge said... I know what the judge said, but I'm still your husband.
What do you want here?
I came for my painting. The judge said you couldn't come here. Myrtle, I'm warning you, don't make a scene. Don't you touch that painting. Get out of my way.
Don't you touch that painting. You can't help it.
Let go of me.
I warn you.
My eyes. My eyes. What did you do to me? Edward.
Edward. Edward.
Cleveland, Ohio. The stories that actually happened. Bus Bergen's story as he lived it.
You are on the criminal court beat in July, Bus Bergen. Reporter for the Cleveland Press. It's hot work pounding the grimy marble floors, sifting the routine violence and misery back through the phone to the bored rewrite man at the press. When the time comes to check back at the office, you hoist your tired feet on your desk and kill a half hour checking the early editions to see if they spell the names right in your stories. But today, you only get as far as the box scores on the front page. Hey, Bergen. Yeah. Hey, boss, get your heels on the floor. And have the blood rush out of my head? Not on your life. Look, I got a call in from Lakewood. Fight between a husband and wife. May the best man win. It's a good address.
There may be a story in it. Oh, look. Hey, Wiley, I'd put in a hot day chasing bail bond runners. All right, come on. Come on up. We got 40 minutes till a stocks edition. Oh. Grab a company car and get out there. Oh. When are they going to get wall-to-wall carpeting at the courthouse? Come on, come on, move. This isn't a handset weekly. You've got 40 minutes to deadline. Now get out there and wrap it up.
40 minutes to the stocks edition.
40 minutes and they lock up the forms and the presses roll with the Dow Jones closing stock averages and the bold scores complete to the top of the third. You grab a company coupe and push it out to the manicured lawn neighborhood in Lakewood, Ohio. There's a squad car parked in the gravel turnaround, and Sergeant Al Garlick of the Lakewood police is holding the forehead of a thin kid in a gray sweatshirt and corduroy pants. The kid is sick. Good and sick. How about it, Sergeant? I've got a half hour to the stocks edition. That's all I know, Bergen. Easy, kid. Am I right? No, I think. What happened to the kid? He ain't got a lung full. I won't be able to go to class tonight.
What is the premise of 'Forty Minutes to Meet a Deadline' and who are the key players?
There's a test and I won't be able to go home. All right, son. I got you. You found Mrs. Peters? She's lying there in that awful smell. How am I going to study for my test? I go to night school. Sure, sure. Look, there was a fight, right? Mrs. Peters was shouting at Mr. Peters. And she screamed and he came running up.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–5:44
2
What is the premise of 'Forty Minutes to Meet a Deadline' and who are the key players?
5:44–10:13
3
How does Bus Bergen respond to the Lakewood domestic call with only 40 minutes to deadline?
10:13–17:35
4
What initial evidence points to cyanide rat poison and Peters as the suspect?
17:35–24:11
5
How does the newsroom pressure shape Bergen's fast-first story and editorial demands?
24:11–32:51