The Hidden Truth

Old Radio Cat

(1.7 stars; 3 reviews)

The Hidden Truth (1967-1969) Episodes of this radio program opened with “The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth—the hidden truth”. This South African program was based on the real-life cases of criminologist Leonard Keeler, co-inventor of the polygraph, or lie detector, machine. Hart Maguire played the part of Keeler, a man who could, literally, smell a lie. Refusing to be baffled by crime, he always finds what he is after: "The Hidden Truth."

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.

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Chapters

The Hidden Truth 67-11-18 xxx Two Deaths by Poison	23:59
The Hidden Truth 67-12-10 431 The Denture	24:04
The Hidden Truth 67-xx-xx 394 Ollie Getlow	25:13
The Hidden Truth 67-xx-xx 440 Missing Lock Box	26:19
The Hidden Truth 67-xx-xx xxx A Message in Scarlet	24:06
The Hidden Truth 67-xx-xx xxx Alvin Van Ess	26:40
The Hidden Truth 67-xx-xx xxx Death from the Bed	23:48
The Hidden Truth 67-xx-xx xxx Margie Turner	24:13
The Hidden Truth 67-xx-xx xxx Necromancy Hypnotism and Sorcery	23:32
The Hidden Truth 67-xx-xx xxx The Corpse with a Missing Stomach	27:06
The Hidden Truth 67-xx-xx xxx The Urge to Kill Women	26:12
The Hidden Truth 68-11-18 xxx The Abducted Girl	24:19
The Hidden Truth 68-11-25 xxx An Out and Out Liar	24:01
The Hidden Truth 69-08-10 xxx Blackmail	24:00
The Hidden Truth xx-xx-xx 432 Jimmy Waldo	25:32
The Hidden Truth xx-xx-xx xxx Leticia Graham	25:40
The Hidden Truth xx-xx-xx xxx Lydia Montrose	26:37
The Hidden Truth xx-xx-xx xxx Short-Term Husband	26:22

Reviews

One episode review - Old, superficial dish.

(2 stars)

AMP1972

First of all, I can agree with both reviewers before me (ywv & Out of Stone). The quality can be redeemed, if one knows how to add equalizer, balance, and how to amplify sound (there are APPS and #freeware for such). I did my own remix, but still found it "not good in quality". The context, and I repeat: I only listened to the episode about Necromancy, Hypnotism, and Sorcery, is really crappiest, dumbest #CrimeFiction. It is not a supernatural series, but that doesn't excuse zero knowledge about the topics featured. It comes down to simple murder, and primitive (common) motives for such. The screaming is not entertaining either. What I appreciate nonetheless is the cross-cultural aspect. Nice to listen-in on works from other countries.

Interesting start then downward turn

(2 stars)

ywv

The background and development of the lie detection is interesting. However the quality of the storylines varies greatly. Sometimes the lie detector isn't even used in the story. A lot of duplications.

Low bit-rate

(1 stars)

Out of Stone

Lousy, low-quality bit-rate ruins it - why the heck couldn't the uploader use a higher bit-rate? Unless, of course, these are merely ripped files from other web sources.