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Manhunt: The Clue of the Widowed Bride and Police Headquarters: Man Steals Food (EP1263) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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to fill that out survey dot Great Detectives dot net. Well, today we've
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got a bit of an odd ball show here. We have one episode left
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of Manhunt and we're throwing in one episode of police Headquarters. So we fill
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about half an hour of time today's episode of Manhunt. We don't know when
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it originally aired. The only god we have is the digitally FTP's log.
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Unfortunate, isn't that just no information on this particular time period? So here
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is Manhunt and the clue of the widowed bride man Hunt, the clue of
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the widowed bride that led to man hunt. All prime has been committed yet,
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no murder has been done yet, no man hunt has begun yet.
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There she is in the doorway. Doesn't she look be All brides look beautiful?
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Don't you know that it's getting a wonderful man the way she looks?
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Now she existed and are sometimes to see in a couple of minutes, Peggy
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not mobile, missus Douglas Gordon, What a break for ceremonial friends. We
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are gathered here today. Let a switch this is we came to a wedding
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and we wind up with a funeral, man hunt and the clue of the
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widowed bride. All right, all right, get their names and addresses and
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let them all go. Then hold one hundred and fifty people all night for
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nothing. Call me back. Hi, No, I really says you so
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happy about Drew. No reason are you so glum about though I got a
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reason you want me for anything, and you're just wasting time in my office.
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I just want to know whether you had anything on a Douglas Gordon murder
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that I could check in my laboratory. When I gets something, I'll bring
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it in. Guy was shot at his own wedding. One hundred and fifty
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people in the all, but nobody saw the murderer and there isn't a gun
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on the whole place. My men searched everybody practically told the place down looking
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for it, and we looked outside too. So don't give me any of
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your smart suggestions. Okay, Bell, I won't, but I'll tell you
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one thing. Eh, there's no gun. Nobody saw the shot fired.
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Then the murderer stood weigh in the back and got out of the hall as
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soon as he killed Gordon. It could have happened that way. The place
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wasn't filled. Somebody could have been on the last drown and shot Gordon from
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there. Yeah. Well, I've solved half of your case. You take
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the other half. I told you how it was done. You find out
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who did it. Simple. I'm the one that's simple listening to you,
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and I remember, Drew. You stay in your laboratory where you belong,
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and don't make some this case. Give me trouble on this and I'll get
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your suspension. Mister. Sure as my name is Bill Morton. Okay,
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Bill, I believe it now seeing you. Okay, Okay, get going.
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I'm gonna find the murderer Douglas. All right, all right, Pete
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it Hey, what did you say? I beg your pardon? Can you
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tell me where I'll find the society editor. I'm Drew Stevens Police. Right
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in that office across the floor, mister Stephens. His name is Reginald Gordon.
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Gordon. Any relation to Douglas Gordon. Yes, yes, his brother.
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He's all broken up with Stephens. He idolizes his kid brother with Douglas.
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Thank you very much. I won't keep it too long, I mean,
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mister Gordon, I'm Drew Stevens Police. Could I talk to you a
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minute, please? Yes? I oh so, thank you and sit down.
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Stephen. Thanks. I hate to bother you at this time. First
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of all, when I came here, I wasn't aware that you were Douglas
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Gordon's brother. Oh, then what did you want? Some information? Apparently
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somebody in the social set to which your brother and his bride to be belong
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didn't want their marriage to take place. Nobody wanted it to take place except
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Doug and Peggy. Oh, mister Gordon. If your brother weren't around,
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who would Peggy Norton have married? Some other unfortunate Probably George Jeffers or Walter
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Nicholson. They were both in love with her. Were they at the wedding?
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Do you know? I don't know. Personally, I couldn't stand to
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see my brother throw himself away on that girl. And I wasn't there either.
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Snorton girl must be pretty terrible in your book, mister Gordon, I'd
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rather not talk about it. Excuse me. Oh, certainly, thank you
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for your time and for the information. I'm going to see miss Norton.
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Where does she live, mister good The ellen b Towers. Incidentally, if
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you're going up there, you'll probably find George Jeffers more than Nicholson there too.
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Yes, how do you do it? Is? Miss Peggy Norton?
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In my name is Drew Stevens Police. Well, she's busy right now mister
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Stevens, but come in. Thanks. I'm George Jeffers. Peggy's been questioned
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now by Sergeant Morton in the homicide department. Oh, Bill's here, or
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mister Jeffers, would you give Sergeant Morton a note for me? Please?
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I don't want to interrupted myself. Well, certainly, Miss Kyeah. Just
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write it out in this notebook. O Commissioner, let's see you once in
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his office. Don't telephone, but get there immediately. He knows who killed
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Gordon? Signed? Are please see that Sergeant Morton gets this? So the
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police commissioner knows who killed Gordon? Well, uh are you going to wait
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to see miss Norton and mister Stevens. No, no, I'm going now
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very well, I'll take the note right here. Thank you. I can't
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talk to that Norton goalwile don't he'd see to that readal he finds that notes
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a fake while high behind these drapes. Till nobody leave here. Remember'll I
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come back or I phone get that, we'll be here. Norton, Okay,
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goodbye, George. Do you think he suspects anything? Not a thing?
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He doesn't know a thing. Take I thought you'd left Stevens. I
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changed my mind, Miss Carton, Andrew steven he's a detective piggy, not
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exactly, Miss Thornton. Could I talk to you too for a minute please?
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I want to know several things. For instance, why are you going
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to marry Douglas Gordon, Miss Norton? Because I loved him, of course.
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And why are you here now, Jeffs, because I love Peggy George?
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Why not? There were three of us in love with Miss Norton,
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Stevens, Gordon, Walter, Nicholson myself. See she picked Gordon, but
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that doesn't mean that we stopped loving her. We didn't mind too much losing
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out to Douglas Gordon. It was as fine a man as you love a
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find. And yet he was murdered. Some one had killed me, mister
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Stephens. That would be easy to understand. I'm not very well liked except
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by the men you know about. Yes, I gathered that. Were you
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at the wedding, Jeffers, No, neither Walter nor I could take that.
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The nearest he got to the wedding was reading about it in this newspaper
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here for may I see that paper for you? Certainly he will thank you
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by Reginald Gordon. It's been pretty tough on poor Gordon write the story of
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his brother's murder. Let see says death was the best man to day what
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was to be the wedding of Peggy Norton and Douglas Gordon. Where the ceremony
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could begin, And as Pastor Robert Thackeray said, friends, we are gathered
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here to day, murderous bullets thundered through the hall. Please must have been
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reminded of those words? Must you read that now? No? But I
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just thought of something there. I use your telephone right there. Thank you.
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Please don't go either, miss Jordon. Did the murder of Douglas Gordon
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happen just as it was describing the paper? Yes, exactly that way.
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Those were the exact words the pastor used, and the shot came just at
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that time. Hello, connect me with Reginald Gordon. Hello Gordon, this
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is true, Steven, No, not yet. Hell Look Gordon, you're
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a story on page one of the paper tonight. Did you write it after
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questioning any of the wedding guests? No, I know it wasn't necessary.
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I was just asking. No, that's all, thank you very much.
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I knew it. I knew It got me out on a wild goose chase
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with that note, so you could sneak up here, you droo, how
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they'll listen? I had to. I had to talk to these people.
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You won't be talking to anybody for a long time, Drew Lucky. I
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had sense enough to telephone the commissioner find out your message was a phony.
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I'm arresting you right now, Drew, Bill Luck, not now. Don't
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arrest me now, up for an hour. If I don't have this murder
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cleaned up by then, I'll quit my job. I'll give myself up to
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you or anything you want. Please, Bill, just one hour. I'm
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not giving you a minute. You've made a dope bottom me for the last
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time. You're coming with me way, Hey, Sorry you made me do
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this, Bill, but I've got to get out of it. But on
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that gun, Drew, or on a gun on an officer with the laws
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of crime, you can't get away with that. Letters a crime Toebill.
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I can't let a murderer get away with that either. You're a good reporter,
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mister Gordon's had a lot of training. I've been on this paper for
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twenty years. But what are you driving at? Stephen just this. You
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say you weren't at the wedding of your brother and Peggy Norton. No,
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I told you I wasn't there. Anybody that says they saw me there a
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lying Nobody said they saw you there. But your story said you were there.
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Said it very plainly. It stated the exact minute the shot was fired,
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right after the preacher's first words. How did you know what they were?
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I didn't know. I imagine you know all right. You know because
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you heard them the only way in the world you could have known, and
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your reporter's instinct made you write those words just as you heard them. You're
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in the hall, Gordon fired the shot that killed your brother, and then
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escape before anyone saw you. Why'd you do it? We're going to have
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to kill you too, Stephens. Right now, don't move. This gun
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is aimed right at your heart. Doesn't matter how many people I kill now.
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I never meant to kill my brother. I meant to kill Peggy Norton.
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She would have ruined Douglas's life. She would have gone on playing around
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with Jefferson Walter Nicholson after they were married. Your aim wasn't very good at
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the wedding. I think take a chance on it. Now, you'll never
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hold me, Stephen. He would never. I'll get this gun free.
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I guess they shot the wrong man again, Stephens. Hey, Hey,
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what was going on here? He killed your brother by a mistake. But
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you killed him, didn't you? Go in? Yes, we were always
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together in life. I guess it isn't too tough to join him all.
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He's gone down. You had his confession. Oh still want me? I
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still want him? He says. Oh, I don't want you. I'm
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never gonna watch you. I guess you'll always be around. Thank goodness,
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welcome back. Well, well, let's date unknown. I tend to think
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that had to be earlier in the series run, when Bill was being a
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bit more excessive in his trying to stop Drew from participating, rather than Drew
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just pretty much going out acting like he was an the old detective and was
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a little bit melodramatic, and the clue was kind of obvious. So maybe
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not the best one to end with on Manhunt. And also I should add
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that just because someone is shot at a wedding doesn't change it to a funeral,
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not unless someone is really cheaping. Doesn't want to hire a preacher for
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a second service. Well, since we already paid you to the wedding that
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was not done, let's just go ahead and get the rights over for the
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funeral. Well it was still a wedding, all right. Well from there
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we turned to an episode of Police Headquarters, and here is episode fifteen.
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Man steals food the corner and Williams a man taking a lot. Go to
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the corner of Williams. A man taking a lot here, step on it
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right, no packtor, sirn. We've better Slipping on him does not to
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stare him away. Throwing your cutch and pat up the other side of the
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street. And that's more in life. Okay, anything of him? Yeah,
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in front of that do spip shut it. See, let's get wait
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a minute, let's get him. Do the right. Let's open that door
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in a minute and then we'll spring it on. We get him. One
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of the still outside is able to beat the reft. You have to be
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right. You got the door open here and there's no professionals. Probably some
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bunger. He got a cane in the miner of do get inside. Some
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days the jays are gonna get smart and find out they can't beat the police
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radio. Oh, some of them will never learn. Well, let's get
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him. Okay, you still out in front now walking on him. Don't
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take any chances that smugg Kim pleasures are right on you. Let him have
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it. Don't worry about me. I need you yell one of his backyard
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of the place. All right, I'm going inside. H go off you
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yellow love it ran all right? My god, that's all right. This
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is awful. Don't to the officer, please, timon on Yeah, that's
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what you say. Brook and Mike and known of him. Kim all right,
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must missing. It looks like he was in the meats there that night.
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You're no, so he belongs to the store. What were you doing
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with it? I was cutting some of that meat and some of the cheese
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too. I haven't taken the piece of meating months. Look at the cash
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register, Mike, everything there, walk to I'm jessic. I'm gonna starving
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family at home. I was stealing for them up there, some tongue and
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roast, beef and cheet I guess I grabbed him up everything. There's so
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much here. Yeah, I've heard all that before. Oh my wife sick.
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I got three kid no milk. I guess he's underned. What's your
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name? Good? First name, pil Where you live in the natty just
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around the corner. There's no money, but the potamons are kind of my
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wife. You'll never be understand this. Why didn't you tell me? I
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understand? To you, Mike, sounds like it might be on the level.
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Jim, Well, young fella, you're telling us a good story,
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and it better be true. Of course, we can't bet you go,
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but I'm gonna. I'm gonna go around to your house to investigate. Well,
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you can't do that? Why not? Why? Why? To you?
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I'm afraid you're not lying about your wife, are you No? Then
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you're coming with me and show me where you live. Come on, Mike,
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all right, and Mike, you know, gather up those chunks of
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meat and uh got a couple of bottles of milk out of the icebox.
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A Sky's story about his sick wife might be on the level. Is very
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long. Claim. Promise the officers that I'm gonna let my wife know that
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I've been arrested, or I won't. We'll tell us that you're going away,
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that you got a job in a in a railroad game. Tell her
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that I helped you get it. How we're going in with a smile on
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our faces. See all right, smile, Oh right, officers, you're
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a regular guy. All right, good going, think it Mike, Yeah,
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it was spilt the milky little kids. There's little light in here,
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but there's a kid's living on the table. I like that. Oh that
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you Yes, yes, it's me, dear. Don't worry, honey,
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I've got some good news for you. There'll need some light. You can
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put those things down over there. And no, man, it's all right.
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Your your husband told me how he needed work, and I've arranged a
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job for him. Helped him home with the grocery. Oh, I'm so
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happy. How you feeling. I'm always don't worry about media. Yes,
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we said so, find the care for the hug the baby. He has
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a terrible feel. That's too bad. Let me see No, no,
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no, it's kind of hard. Hike. Yeah, I beat it up
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and get Doc Conners. He lives just around the corner. I did him
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my favorite one. Now he can do one for me. Oh that's all
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right, man, don't you worry at all. Little chev We can't see
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him get sick. Are the other kids they're all well? Thank you?
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It doesn't matter. Man, Oh, I'm so happy. I could cry
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when you first see me. You know what I thought that I thought the
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currents had been arrested trying to steal something for him to eat. I know
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he's got a job, but I'm so happy. Yeah, Well, don't
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you worry none, man, Oh, I won't worry now, Officer.
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I'll get well and strong and look after the children and and clarents meals when
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he comes home. But I won't be able to come home, Nancy,
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that is not parioletly. You see, man, your husband's got a job
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of a railroad gang. They're moving up state for a few weeks. But
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oh, you don't know how happy I am. I just tried so hard
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to find something to do. But it seems that there are hundreds of other
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men trying to do. Yes, there are. Well, your husband and
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I have got to run a man and time to make the work train.
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When the doctor comes, just tell him Tim said to fix the baby up,
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and to stay and cook up a few things. And don't worry,
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no, man, Everything's going to turn out all right. That is I
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hope. So that's the way it is, mister. This man's wife and
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children were starving. He had no work, no money. He did just
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what you or I or anyone else would have done. Now, the other
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officer and I are willing to pay for the meat and the milk, and
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we'll have that broken lock. Prepare too, ah, Bet that man very
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tried to rob me the quest. He didn't try to take anything but something
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I eat. Now, what do you say? Shall we forget it right
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with me? And you don't need to be for the meet it. Go
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get the station on the phone. I'll see what the lieutenant says. Right.
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I like that a knowledge you're doing the right thing. Mister shul Hello,
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lieutenant, that's a minute. Albus McCarty wants to talk to you.
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There you go. Hello, lieutenant, this is Tim McCarty. We're on
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that cowler call of Thirton Williams. Yeah, the guy's the next World War.
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Bet can't find work, wife and three kids starving. He broke into
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the place and tried to steal some meat, and he didn't touch the cash.
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Yeah, I made the investigation. Everything's in a pretty bad way.
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Wife and babysick. Well, here's what I'm calling you about. Shows the
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man who owns the store says he won't press charges. Is it okay with
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you? The markets to no rest? What did he say? Yeah?
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I know, but he doesn't want to west charges. Tell him we're paying
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for the stuff. I'm sure Mike and I saw him break in. All
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right. Listen, I thought you'd be fair about this thing, Lieutenant.
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I'll go to blazers before I testify against this guy. Tell him that goes
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for rule too. I know it's taken judgment into our hands. Yes,
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I know a phony has been committed to, but you gotta take circumstances into
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consideration. Was that all right? What did he see? Lins? You
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don't care what we do as long as we turn in an arrest on the
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case. I thought all he wants is an arrest. Yeah, give me
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that phone, mean capital six s eight one two. What are you up
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to now, you crazy irishman. I'll give him an arrest. Hello,
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those proof pilots. I want to talk to Wheezy Meadows. Yeah, they're
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getting crazier every day like a fox. Hello, Wheezy, this is Mike
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Ryan. I listen, Wheezy. I've gotta wrap up nicely for you,
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and I've been holding it up all right. I'm springing it on you unless
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you do something for me. Oh, I get it. I want you
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to circulate a story around amongst some of your friends. That is a Dutchman
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who owns a delicatessent a Ferd and Williams. He just sold his store and
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has three thousand bucks solid away his grip, thank it, four thousand Yeah,
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the guy's got five thousand ducks solid away. He's cripp It's one of
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those little sheet metal boxes that can be opened with the canos and a good
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boy. Never mind, what for now? Listen, that story hasn't made
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the rounds. In thirty minutes, I'm coming for you with an ambulance.
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God work, sure need to get through that story. You have it,
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ten thousand bucks. I'm right here on the counter. Guy, here for
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it. In ten minutes, I'm going to catch it a cold from sitting
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on the floor in the door trying to round door. Let him try,
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Yeah, and those you're shatterings and a combination, all right, you stick
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him up. Well you will try to pull a rod on me, will
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you? Nah? Just shut the rats gun out of his hand. Turn
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on the way show m n okay, one of those smart guys you didn't
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know Whoasy Meadows was just circulating that story for us? Did you it was
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just a gag, buddy, just a gag. Yeah, only smoke its
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Wheezy himself say you must be a dominate or ball rock gag like that?
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Whois? He never was? Very Well, here's a lieutenants Arrestquarters, Police
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Headquarters. Okay, Mike, Hello, Lieutenant officers Ryan and McCarthy just made
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an the rest on the delicatess job Police Headquarters. Welcome back. Well,
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this episode's interesting for a number of reasons. Other episodes of the series have
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kind of just portrayed the police as you know, unstoppable people do whatever they
26:45
have to do to get the job done, and those episodes meant to show
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their softer, more compassionate side, and it succeeds in that. Albeit it
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basically involves them in shrapping someone else so that they can get somebody out I
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take in for a rest. We tend to not feel as bad about it,
27:03
given that the person who did end up getting arrested but only probably had
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it coming for something else. But also it was just not very bright at
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all and really brought the whole thing on himself. But again, a somewhat
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odd effort in this one. All right, Well, we do turn to
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some listener comments and feedback, and we start with a Jim who we mentioned
27:26
at the top of the show. He writes, I really enjoy listening to
27:30
the different shows in your commentary. Keep up the great work. I remember
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listening to some of these programs when I visited my grandparents. They talked about
27:40
a number of the characters like they were family, the good guys. Of
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course, Well, that's definitely true, and I think particularly on the on
27:49
some of the comedy programs, just because there were some people who would continue
27:57
character for a day, eight or more and it really was you know,
28:03
you created just a very and I'm an atmosphere over radio and these just amazing
28:10
characters. And then I comment from L. K. Williams, who says
28:12
I listened to a great deal of old time radio and national public radio.
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Since I no longer have cable, just decided to go cold Turkey, no
28:21
more TV. There are times when I'm listening to shows on other websites and
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forget that I won't hear your comments before and effort. It has occurred to
28:29
me that listening to you is as close as I get to sharing that I
28:32
love with something I love with a friend. Thank you for all you do
28:37
when you share your love of radio with your listeners. Well, thanks so
28:41
much. I appreciate your comment. And it is interesting. I'm on a
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on another old time radio group and listen and somebody on there who is under
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forty they post about it. They're wondering, is this for some people?
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It's like a secret hobby because when they you know, when they explain that
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they're into radio dramas, you know, no one that they know under forty
29:12
even gets what they're talking about or what the interest is. Do dend to
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think that that's more of an American concept that's more common in other places in
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the world. I've been listening recently to some of the big finish production Doctor
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Who audios, and they have interviews with the cast members, and many of
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them talk about their love of radio and how they listen regularly to BBC Radio
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four's productions. So there are still others who can't relate. So appreciate your
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comments, and I hope that listeners are enjoying the show and sense of community
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we try to create here. Good to hear the fa All right, Well
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we're done with manhunt. So next week we're going to bring you the beginning
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of Pursuit, but Pursuit's original name in the pilot was the Hunters. We're
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going to listen to that pilot and police headquarters will be back at the end
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of the week on Saturday, so be sure and listen for that. In
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