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Now it's time for today's episode of Pursuit. And we had quite a few
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lost episodes between this week's show and last weeks. But today's program is Pursuit
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of the Thames Pirates and this program actually aired in nineteen fifty two, so
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February twelfth, nineteen fifty two. Eight lost episodes in between last week's show
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and this week's Let's go ahead and take a listen and bar Pursue. A
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criminal strikes and pays quickly back into the shadows of his own dark work.
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And then the man from Scotland Yard, the famous Inspector Peter Black, and
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the dangerous relentless Pursue When Man hunts Man Always Ben Wright stars the famous Inspector
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Peter Black of Scotland Yard. We bring you tonight's story, Pursuit of the
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Thames Pirates. Oh, Chap's got a date ready? Business like this comes
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up? Not fair? I'm going to resign. No, morvid. We're
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going on the river and I turn the division. Oh I can't help it
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and steak of the valence. That's cold. I had a date too.
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Let meet you outside. Hello, Hello, this is Peter. Oh,
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Peter Darling. I'll be ready to half an hour and a Yes, I
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love you mad but if I keep talking, I'll never get my face.
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I'm afraid something happened that what I have to work? No? Oh no,
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yes, I'm afraid. So you mean we're not going out? I'm
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terribly sorry. Oh look here I must run, but may I call you
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later? I don't know. I might be home and I might not.
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I'm very angry with you, Peter. This is well, I'm so sorry,
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really, I really yes, well, I mean i'll call you later.
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I suppose so, yes, well, thanks very much, goodbye.
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All right, come on, keep your eye on the fourth quarter over there
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near the dock. See. Yeah, doesn't seem to be moving. She
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is no lights, makes it hard to stelle. Probably cut their motor.
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He does what quarter? When I get the word, switch on the search
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and when I have a look at that boat. I funny we didn't see
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them slipped past her Bellian. I'd have moved around the bar yank and over
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there. Much visibility tonight, anyway, I think we want to have been
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closer. I'm not yet, ole boy. They're the ones they'd slip out.
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Whether they've got us too fast for us? All right, Peter,
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switch on doctor engine mcon dot a engine? Are you served on one?
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A boat? Don't you? Ermanion something like it? She could be a
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thornet crop MTP A little small. Oh, hey, throw the boat.
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I'm cutting up board. He's too, I'll peterhead mcon dog, I'll see
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hello. She's ringing about. I'm going to stop to stop the Macon dog.
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She's right her wrap it Towns a bag. The entire Netropolitan Police for
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US had been on the alert for a gang of waterfront fee They'd been in
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operation for years, but during the past three weeks had enlarged operations to certain
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extent that every available man had been sent to the duck's vicinity. Ten tradition
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launches had intensified their patrol, and still we had not been able to put
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a stuff to the piracy. We knew that they were using a high powered
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motor boat and fellows. They chose foggy or moonless night for their attack.
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However, that night we found them well Avendon. I was flat on my
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face trying to bury myself in the deck of a bouncing police launch while a
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machine gun bullet whipped over me. You are right, black, oh,
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happy as a lark. I couldn't think of a nice away to spend an
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evening. All right to move it had a pump. Yeah, don't know
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what you mean here in un the wireless horrific Hellamos makes contact with a crop
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MTP. That'll because and I'm heading up river ask him to under sept curse
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that Teddington lost beg a doss good eggins full pottle. I hate to us
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good but not we're picking for cover, I mean miss speed in part.
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Oh they're doing it. We've got to catch him. Oh I don't take
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that. We'll make dots big us up. Can't be a basic things?
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Where are we off? A tick grenide? Reach isle of dogs over there?
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Ye oh, that cap got nerves know where he's going. I hope
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you do not, Jude, old boy. Just as long as we don't
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hit a bog or a log or something like that. How fast were going?
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Thirty? He was like six, Fee we hit anything, it won't
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make any difference. Are a cheerful tom? I say, how do you
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know they try it tonight? I didn't. But it's threeen eight days since
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the last one. It's the first foggy nights is then don't get the hunt?
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Oh but do you think we can catch them? And now try?
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Though you like machine guns, if I'm behind them, I don't mind.
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Always have one aboard for emergencies. Might have to use it all right?
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Because I yelled him rather Peters and I told Peter the Germans row boat in
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an MTV there's nothing like it. Aha, except enough is that the yard
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senter his swine. I didn't close one. I wish this ruddy fog would
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lift h t A right, but it didn't. We kept on the same
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incredible speed. Damn you must have known the river by He had to,
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because I know he could barely see it. The pot boat was somewhere in
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front of it, and we rolled and flapped in his wick. T D
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two passed the divisional base at Whopping Carbridge London Bridge, Waterloo. Once we
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thought he saw a dark shape the head as the park cleared for a moment,
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but it quickly closed in again. We were rolling on the Putney Bridge
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when Peter's bought a while his messages. If it's from Whopping, sir,
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oh luck, one of the launches show him go by it, but it
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was too fast for him. It's too fast for us too, if that
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isn't a converted pawnic craft di leaded or how far do you think you'll run?
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Who knows he can't hide one of those things say well, we've found
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a party sooner or later, my dear, o't thing. We'venounce at least
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six months that they're using a boat. No one's ever seen us now we
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have, But if we give him twenty four hours, they can change the
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lines so that you will look like our house boat. Oh, why don't
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you and Sargeant Marvatt hop up to the bow of that god you see anything,
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have a pot at it or charming fellow. You're safe behind the wheel.
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They shoot back and we get it exactly. Give you something to think
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about, eh, Peter, bring out a couple of river at jacket.
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I sir, you can't have overcoats and bowlers on my ship. Black.
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They aceeeven of you. Yes, I doubted, Marppet doubts it too,
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look at him. By the time they reached a qule, there was no
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longer any sign about party's wig. The villain was forced to slow down.
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When I touched curist has screamed the warning and literally scraped by dragging a spring
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of small budges across deep The pug lifted a bit enough so that we could
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see only darkness ahead of us. There was no sign of the pirate.
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All right, they've sewn themselves up. We'll get him now. How heading
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can rocks ahead? You can see the lights. It's like a blind alley.
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Follow They might try to double back they won't get fired if they do
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see any signs, haven't Piers, hey ongeon, I give my sharp look
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out, I said, yeah, the locks don't they look rutty rot white
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out? Over what? The devil's a matter of nose? Do you think
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they didn't get the message? Why of course they did. Somebody's going to
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roast. But there's tears stand by with the bow line. We're going to
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run in for a minute, right, I love m juice going on and
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they must have better than a half my lead on us found double bloss foss
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feed bag of car next blocks at Hampton Court. We'll signal I had to
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close them. Ah what fil Yes, now I want to have a little
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talk with the gentleman in charge of the locks here. He's not going to
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be so easy now. Why there's a hundred places from the hide along the
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river. Even though we catch them before Hampton Court. You know they might
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have pulled him the shop if I've even got here, died for we could
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have seen them in that fog. Yes, I know now, well the
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devil's at locks master. Hello, they smell dumping eh oh yeah, good
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lord, look oh he's not dead that he's not going to wake up for
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a long time. He must have found the locks closed, came up here,
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forced him to open them, and I'll have Peters get him smelled yes,
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and send out a general alarm. Cover the river from here up to
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Roxford. Nah, what about Hampton Court locks? Aye wireless for a police
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guard, that is, if they haven't already got through. We couldn't,
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and as far as we could determine, some hours so later, they hadn't
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passed beyond Hampton Court. Now, except for the river Mole which emptied into
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the Thames, we had approximately ten miles of river to searche. Somewhere between
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the Teddington Lucks and Hampton Court there was a powerful motor launch, equipped with
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machine guns and carrying a crew whom we now knew might not stop at murder.
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One thing over which we had little control was the possibility that they would
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abandon the boat and escape by road. So I ordered a cord and set
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up on both sides of the river with the hope that we might forestall had
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Janet. It was going to be a long night. So when we docked
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again to take another machine gun aboard, I made a phone call. Hello,
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Hello Anne, Peter, Oh you I just cried myself to sleep.
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Where are Teddington on the river? How are you doing there? Looking for?
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No? It isn't then they've almost killed a man. Oh I'm sorry.
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I thought I might be able to drop by for a moment or two
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tonight. But oh it's all right. Take care of you. Yes,
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we'll make it okay, Yes, i'd love to. I miss you.
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Come in the morning, good night, good night? Ready, Yes,
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I'm coming copye, sir? Oh, thank you you, sir. Thanks
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Lada Pageant, Oh no, thank you might settle your muppet. That's what
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I'm afraid of, sir, for good nor No, watch that bag of
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Josh. Get the sets back on it. You just passed something. Oh,
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I say, sir, could be the same one. Hard to tell
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you. I know she's anchor to stand on. I have her look.
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Oh, take that gun on the bobby. That's right, sir. Keep
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the sect study on a Macintosh. What do you think I'll save my lines?
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All right? Of course there's more than one converted MTV on the river.
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They want me to hop over with the line, Oh will you we'll
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keep you covered from Yeah, it's kind of him enough in a sect alcerine?
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Oh, smell it up. Anybody in a board heaven born decks haven't
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been scrubbed in a month of Sundays. Now, they could have road for
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sure. If they carry a dingy and there's something funny about her, should
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carry light anchored in mid stream? Yes, Now where that devil's the switch?
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Don't turn it on and don't turn around. Now lock your guns,
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I said, drop him all right, Now, we're going to have a
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little talk. If anybody raises his voice, he's going to be exactly Hi,
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fellas, here to join me in a quick look at the past.
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Okay, here goes back around eighteen ninety, Charles Dudley Warner, who was
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editor of the Hartford Current, wrote in an editorial, everybody talks about the
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weather, but nobody does anything about it. Well, maybe no one did
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in eighteen ninety, but someone definitely has since then. Our United States weathermen,
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he's quite a busy gentleman who works for the Department of Commerce. His
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job is to read thermometers, barometers, anemometers, and other assorted meters which
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forecast weather conditions so the rest of us will know what to plan or what
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not. The plan like hanging out a wash or going to a baseball game.
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Information about weather conditions is also given to aircraft pilots and ship captains so
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they can plan their flights or cruises accordingly. Of course, they need more
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than just weather data, and the Commerce Department gives them what they need.
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Quarder pilots, the department issues aviation shots and maps and sees to it that
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air markers are laid out so that the pilots can find their way easily and
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safely. Quarter Ship captains, the Commerce Department issues nautical jots and tide tables
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to indicate when and where it will be safe to navigate their ship. The
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department also inspects the ships to see that they're in perfect operating conditions and issues
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licenses for the operating of the ships. So the next time you look up
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at the sky and wonder what kind of a day it's going to be,
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the crop might also cross your mind that many lives and valuable cargo carried by
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Americans flos, lanes, and ships are depending on the United States weather man,
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who is also looking at the sky. Oh, the second neck of
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First Sue of the Thames Pirates, the valiant and eyes stood in the darkened
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cabin and under us. The boat swayed in the current for a moment to
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suggest that, and then a light clothed and in it I saw the figure
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of a man, his hands cupping the barrel, allowing only a glimmer to
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see fool. There were four men, two holding comic guns. They come
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from a cubicle behind us. Pick up the gun's heads. Burst the blokes
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on your lawns, copper, Tell them to clear out. How am I
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going to do that? Anyway you want? They won't do it? You
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ay better? You can't get what's the odds? You you're a skipper.
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Get your head up there and tell him to cost so your parent can stay
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down here. Say the wrong thing and I'm going to shoot him. Got
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up? Kick all right, you're gonna move on. Say the right thing?
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Kid me? Well back, better do it? He does, all
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sir? Uh? Picked up black? What's a fingerprint? Man to come
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out? All right? Lets the boat back to seven. Bring a man
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back with you. You was staying aboard, Yeah, I've been starting bumping
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over. No, No, he can play with you. That's enough.
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Get back down here of getting hot. Stanny didn't cover any more? Do
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we know? Do we want to keep them with it. The brilliant that
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what I say? Wait, shut up. If you'd a tends of a
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motor instead of laying around pottied half the time, it wouldn't have broken down.
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Shut up, you coppers, wouldn't have founish you know that? Just
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bad luck, murder conking out. I suppose you realized I may be a
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murder chard now if the lock smanter dies he asked for it, right,
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film, all right, half hitch, I want that motor running again in
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fifteen minutes. Fifteen minutes. You go with him, Bill, Okay,
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sit down, listen to me. You're our passport. See we're going to
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make a run down with her. And he locks her pills his top.
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That's you, I think, yes. But the whole police voices are when
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it gets light, when it gets like we start welling. Meantime, you
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can worry if you try anything funny with me. I tied us up,
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threw us on a couple of bunks, and then went up on bed.
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We could hear the sounds of repairs going on. We take the police launch
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at least an hour or more before it returned, And in the meantime Sabellion
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and I went a rather awkward position. Oh, come on, drabellion,
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no aesthetics? What you look like a turkey already for the oven? Oh?
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Yes? Is it to me? A couple of prize idiots walking into
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a trap like that? Can't move an inch? You? Oh? I
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mean what are we going to do? Pray? Get killed? Not if
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I can help it. I've got a date tomorrow night, rather like to
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keep it you, Oh, celebrate a woman wonder what Wait a second,
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it's something sharp behind the back. Hun, I'm trying to Yeah, you'd
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like tobacco can or something damned him? Oh and he lacks not yet last
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never mind that? Not get those ropes all funny, fellow, Oh that's
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torn. It sounds it there. Oh, what's the good word? It's
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coucking mostly me. But I'm kind to think about it. But you got
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any bright ideas about what we do once we are up? Got guns?
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Yes? Come on, get a move on. Contre o, DENI could
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have done it in half the time. I know when you were in the
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commander, they taught you about the old sucking Ah what Oh that wasn't to
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step back out in loose wayser, no wonder, pig, no sense of
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humor. You see, I d war when you turn over so that I
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can get it to hands right using the rise of blade Hans. I'm the
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feeling I did that on purple. What I thought? Uh? I see
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ah? I think I feel like a bunch of bananas. That's better.
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We are are we find something too? Ah, one for you and one
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for me. Jolly, I say, I saw an American film last week.
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Chap broke a bottle on the bottle and went to the other broke what
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a mess? And shall we I'm bringing on my heads more sporting gos behind
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the door. Get to get in the first light. You up it didn't
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break it? Guns, I said that up? Hey, all right,
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okay, we gotta be careful the wheel faces the cabin door. Whoever's they're
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they bound to see us have become up shoot first, So I'd rather not
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got a couple of machine guns, you know, I know? No,
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no, wait a bit, they'll come looking for mister ketch here and we
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can give them one at a time. Right here. Canna go down there?
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You probably found a bottom, all right, you know we are hello,
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pleasure mind, I'll play your ears off. Good no gun, no
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gun? Oh well put him away, I say we are hellroy tonight on,
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haven't seen anything yet. These boys are even sillier than we were.
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Happened more even now only two of them up there. Come on, come
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all behind you. The tap of the wheels. Hadn't take the call.
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You can't help us, Oh, I don't ad night, that's not that
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well. I suppose we've got to turn this thing around and all out the
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blossom at your job for about it before would be pirates that disguised the voted
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a fickermen, and with alarming ease, combined with tremendous luck, they managed
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to carry out their series of robberies. The luck's master the Cape from his
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injuries, and the men received long sentences for armed robberies. The night following
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their arrest, I kept my date with Misdam Crawford pursuit and the pursuit it
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ended. You know, many great men have attained the highest office in our
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land, the presidency of the United States, when you guess the name of
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this man. According to historians, no other single man ever did as much
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for a country as this president did for the United States. After a brigid
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military career, he was called from retirement. Who presided at a federal convention
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in Philadelphia, where he was unanimously chosen president. He was also unanimously re
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elected for a second term, but refused to run for a third. Although
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a Federalist, he named a man from another party, Thomas Jefferson, as
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Secretary of State. If you don't have his name by now here are two
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more clues. During his presidency, the cotton gin was invented and the first
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census was taken. Who was he? George Washington, first President of the
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United States. His life is part of your American Caribid. Pursuit is produced
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and directed by Elliot Lewis and has written by Antony Ellis. Music was composed
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and presented by Edi dunnfeather Dead Rights Ours as Inspector Peter Black with Willimond Lawrence
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the Sergeant Moffatt. Featured in Light's cast were Joseph Kerms, Mary Jane Craft,
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Dan o'hurleyhe Blue Krugman, Pewter Ollum, William Johnstone, and Charles David.
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We invite you to join us next week at the same time. When
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pursued, we'll bring you another dramatic story of the famous Inspector Peter Black of
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Scotland Yard relentlessly hunting down those whose dishorted passions read violence and murder. Another
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story of man hunting man. When We Bring You Pursue h M, starring
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Ben Wright, is the famous Inspector Peter Black of Scotland Yard has been a
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presentation of the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service Welcome back. Well,
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I think with the episodes we're hearing of Pursuit, we do see how
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I think that they've been right. Version of Pursuit has really tried to have
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a variety of cases, and I think it does go back to something I
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talked about with the Line Up, a program which aired in a similar era
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to Pursuit, is that there was this idea of trying to make shows that
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would attract people who listened to and loved Dragonet and we kind of see the
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Inspector Black put into a variety of different situations. It's not just showing up
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at a murder scene looking for a perpetrator, which I think was the case
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in a lot of the earlier episodes. I do have an announcement, and
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that is that we actually only have three more weeks of Pursuit left, so
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coming in four weeks we will be bringing you The Saint with most of the
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episodes featuring Vincent, but we'll have Tom Conway in a few plus a very
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different first episode. You want to be sure and listen. So again coming
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in four weeks The Saint. Also those lost episode titles, a lot of
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very intriguing ones. Among the ones that we miss, Pursuit of the Musical
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Killers, Pursuit of the Chief Inspectors Guests, Pursuit in the English Manner,
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Pursuit of the Wilsden Terrors, Pursuit and the Wandsworth Prisoner, and Pursuit of
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the Counterfeit Killers, Pursuit of the Belden Motive, in Pursuit of the London
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Terror. So wow, a lot of episodes missing, but we brought to
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you the Thames Pirates and glad to do that. As I said, next
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week another episode of Pursuit and then I mean up tomorrow Pat Novak for hire.
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