WHITEHALL 1212: THIS IS SCOTLAND YARD
“This is Scotland Yard…”
With those words, Whitehall 1212 opened the door to murder investigations drawn from the files of Scotland Yard—and to one of the most quietly gripping crime series of radio’s golden age.
In this Chesterton Radio Deep Dive, we return to the cases listeners have made favorites in our Whitehall 1212 Marathon and ask a larger question:
Why does this show still work more than seventy years later?
Created by Wyllis Cooper, the legendary radio writer behind Lights Out and Quiet, Please, Whitehall 1212 took a remarkably restrained approach to crime drama. There was no…
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