30 minute drama/adventure show
The Big Story is an American radio and television crime drama which dramatized the true stories of real-life newspaper reporters. The only continuing character was the narrator, Bob Sloane.
The radio series was top-rated, rivalling Bing Crosby's Philco Radio Time.
Produced by Barnard J. Prockter, the shows were scripted by Gail Ingram, Arnold Pearl and Max Ehrlich. Tom Vietor and Harry Ingram directed the series. Gail and Harry Ingram were husband and wife. The theme was taken from Ein Heldenleben ("A Hero's Life"), a tone poem by Richard Strauss.
Prockter was inspired to create the program after hearing about a man who was freed from a life sentence in jail by the work of two newspaper reporters in Chicago. Most of the stories in the show dealt with stories about closed cases. Ross Eaman, in his book, Historical Dictionary of Journalism, wrote that the program was "originally intended to honour reporters ignored by Pulitzer committees ...." Jim Cox also cited that plan in his book, Radio Crime Fighters: More Than 300 Programs from the Golden Age.
Each week the program recognized the reporter who wrote the story on which that episode was based and the newspaper in which the story appeared. The reporter received $500, was interviewed on the air and was acknowledged in the introduction.
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Big Story Episode List - 38 episodes
Big_Story_The_47-06-04_010_The_Thirteenth_Key_James_Fusco.mp3
Big_Story_The_47-10-01_027_TCOT_Counterfeit_Coins_Jack_Adams.mp3
Big_Story_The_47-10-15_029_The_Bobby-Sox_Kid_from_Bayonne_Dorothy_Kilgallen.mp3
Big_Story_The_47-11-26_035_TCOT_Unfinished_Love_Song_Howard_Beaufait.mp3
Big_Story_The_47-12-10_037_TCOT_Final_Curtain_Aubrey_Maddock.mp3
Big_Story_The_47-12-17_038_TCOT_Ambitious_Hobo_Russell_Wilson.mp3
Big_Story_The_48-01-07_041_Manhunt_in_Manhattan_Ted_Prager.mp3
Big_Story_The_48-05-05_058_Pillars_of_Society_William_Miller.mp3
Big_Story_The_48-05-12_059_TCOT_Lucky_Longshot_Robert_Early_Part_2_Only.mp3
Big_Story_The_48-05-19_060_The_Deadline_Murder_Rolf_K_Mills.mp3
Big_Story_The_48-06-30_066_The_Hate_Between_a_Brother_and_a_Sister_A_B_Hendry_pt_1_only.mp3
Big_Story_The_48-07-07_067_The_Woman_Who_Was_a_Witch_George_Cleveland_Bullette_pt_2_only.mp3
Big_Story_The_48-07-21_069_The_Lottery_Racket_Keeler_McCartney.mp3
Big_Story_The_49-01-05_093_Murderous_Kid_Al_Aaronson.mp3
Big_Story_The_49-01-26_096_Jig_Saw_Joseph_Wirges.mp3
Big_Story_The_49-03-09_102_Respected_Chemist_Dead_Ike_McAnally.mp3
Big_Story_The_49-06-08_115_The_Bitterest_Man_On_the_Earth_Julian_C_Houseman.mp3
Big_Story_The_49-07-20_121_The_Poison_Pen_Murders_Tom_Mercer.mp3
Big_Story_The_49-10-12_133_The_Loneliest_Man_On_Earth_Ray_Sprigle.mp3
Big_Story_The_49-12-14_142_Three_Golden_Coins_Nolan_Bullock.mp3
Big_Story_The_50-01-04_145_Murder_and_a_Frustrated_Father_Sam_Melnick.mp3
Big_Story_The_50-01-11_146_Gambling_Divorce_and_Murder_Frank_McCulloch.mp3
Big_Story_The_50-03-01_153_Twenty_Six_Years_to_Explode_Frame-up_Ralph_Goll.mp3
Big_Story_The_50-06-21_169_Death_In_the_Family_William_Noble.mp3
Big_Story_The_50-07-12_172_Hunch_That_Paid_Off_Bill_Griffith.mp3
Big_Story_The_50-10-18_186_Puritan_Morality_and_Violent_Death_Albert_I_Prince.mp3
Big_Story_The_50-11-08_189_Bobby_Soxer_Story_Paul_Schoenstein.mp3
Big_Story_The_50-11-15_190_A_Dead_Certainty_Kenneth_McCormick.mp3
Big_Story_The_50-11-29_192_Triple_Murder_T_R_Johnson.mp3
Big_Story_The_50-12-06_193_Paul_Grays_Missing_Wife_Bernard_Beckwith.mp3
Big_Story_The_51-04-04_210_Poker_Game_Ends_In_Death_William_E_Doherty.mp3
Big_Story_The_51-07-25_226_Wife_Poisoned_Bus_Bergen.mp3
Big_Story_The_52-03-19_260_Friendly_Betrayal_Alan_Cowperthwaite_aka-To_Avenge_a_Murder.mp3
Big_Story_The_52-10-08_282_Body_Found_On_Tamiami_Trail_William_H_Adams_aka-Hot_Lead_Catches.mp3
Big_Story_The_53-02-04_299_The_Three_Gangsters_Don_Morrisey_aka-The_Biggest_Catch.mp3
Big_Story_The_54-01-27_337_Too_Terrible_to_Be_Believed_Arthur_Mielke.mp3
Big_Story_The_54-03-24_345_A_Witness_to_Violence_and_Death_John_Cahlan.mp3
Big_Story_The_54-10-20_362_The_Deadly_Sound_of_Laughing_Sid_Hughes.mp3
