“The Red-haired Robber”, broadcast in January 1937 as “Here Awa’ There Awa’” on BBC Scotland, recounts a story Jim that is told by Sam Goldberg in his eponymous saloon bar in a town called Condor. Some years previously a red-haired man had robbed Goldberg’s safe and escaped on horseback over the border to Canada. Many years later, Jim visits an “Indian Reservation” in Southern Alberta where he is shown some animal skins upon which a story is depicted where a white man kills an “Indian maiden” and is tracked down and scalped by her tribe. Jim turns round and sees that the “Indian chief” is holding the scalp of a red-haired man. The places named In this story are all either made up, or wrongly located. Whether any or all of the events in the story are also invented, we’ll never know.
The full original typescript is viewable and downloadable below, followed by the carbon copy of the original radio script submitted to the BBC in January 1937 for approval.