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Ep.309 Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: They Do It With Mirrors: Pt.4 Nov 18, 2022

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Miss Jane Marple doesn’t look like your average detective. Quite frankly, she doesn’t look like a detective at all. But looks can be deceiving... For a woman who has spent her life in the small village of St Mary Mead, Miss Marple is surprisingly worldly. But as she often points out she has had every opportunity to observe human nature.
They Do It With Mirrors Miss Marple senses danger when she visits a friend living in a Victorian mansion which doubles as a rehabilitiation centre for delinquents. Her fears are confirmed when a youth fires a revolver at the administrator, Lewis Serrocold. Neither is injured. But a mysterious visitor, Mr Gilbrandsen, is less fortunate – shot dead simultaneously in another part of the building.
Pure coincidence? Miss Marple thinks not.

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Ep.308 Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: They Do It With Mirrors: Pt.3 Nov 18, 2022

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Ep.307 Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: They Do It With Mirrors: Pt.2 Nov 18, 2022

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Ep.306 Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: They Do It With Mirrors: Pt.1 Nov 18, 2022

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Ep.305 Dragnet: The Big Meet Nov 14, 2022

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Dragnet ran from June 3rd,1949 to February 26th,1957 on NBC at various times and days and starred Jack Webb as Detective Sergeant Joe Friday. Various partners throughout the show's run were Sergeant Ben Romero (Barton Yarborough), Ed Jacobs (Barney Phillips), and Officer Frank Smith (Ben Alexander).
Webb was the creator/Director of the series and wanted everything to be as authentic as possible, down to the last sound effect. The stories were based on actual police files and "the names were changed to protect the innocent".
Dragnet broke a few radio taboos as well, such as dramatizing sex crimes. Children also were killed on occasion as in the episode "Twenty-Two Rifle For Christmas". The series eventually went to television and ran there for many years.
The Big Meet: Friday tries to trap Howard Scully, a careful narcotics wholesaler, by posing as a buyer. Originally aired October 26th,1950.

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Ep.304 The Adventures Of Philip Marlowe: The Name To Remember Nov 14, 2022

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Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road and those who travel it wind up in the gutter, the prison or the grave.
Philip Marlowe was Los Angeles's toughest detective in the groundbreaking series by Raymond Chandler that helped establish the "hard-boiled" detective subgenre.
Name To Remember: Marlowe is hired to find out the identity of a man with a t-shirt who has been stalking his client. The client is found dead and he’s not the only one.
Originally aired: April 9th,1949.

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Ep.303 Tales Of The Texas Rangers: Bad Blood Nov 10, 2022

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Tales of the Texas Rangers, a western adventure old-time radio drama, premiered on July 8, 1950, on the US NBC radio network and remained on the air through September 14, 1952.
Movie star Joel McCrea starred as Texas Ranger Jayce Pearson, who used the latest scientific techniques to identify the criminals and his faithful horse, Charcoal (or "Charky," as Jayce would sometimes refer to him), to track them down. The shows were reenactments of actual Texas Ranger cases.
Bad Blood: An aircraft plant worker is murdered after receiving orders calling him up for military service. Originally aired April 8th,1951.

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Ep.302 The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes: The Fifth Of November Nov 08, 2022

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Sherlock Holmes, fictional character created by the Scottish writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The prototype for the modern mastermind detective, Holmes first appeared in Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet, published in Beeton’s Christmas Annual of 1887. As the world’s first and only “consulting detective,” he pursued criminals throughout Victorian and Edwardian London, the south of England, and continental Europe.
From 1939 to 1946, Basil Rathbone played Sherlock Holmes with his friend Nigel Bruce on cinema and radio.
The Fifth Of November: Holmes and Watson are off on a Guy Fawkes Day Adventure when a Mr. James Stuart comes in on November 5 and retains Holmes to protect him from his cousin, Guy Falkenberry, who Stuart says is planning to blow him up.
Originally aired November 5th,1945.

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Ep.301 Lord Peter Wimsey: Whose Body? Bunter Brings A Letter Nov 06, 2022

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Ian Carmichael stars as Lord Peter Wimsey in these classic BBC radio dramatisations of Dorothy L Sayers' Golden Age crime novels.

Gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey starred in a number of novels and short stories by Dorothy L Sayers. These full-cast adaptations – first broadcast on BBC radio between 1979 and 2010 – are cherished by crime aficionados worldwide.
Whose Body?: The tale that first introduced Lord Peter to the world, and sees him investigating the case of a corpse in a Battersea bathtub and a vanished oil millionaire.
Episodes:

1. The Body in the Bath

2. Disappearance of a Financier

3. Lunch at Lady Swaffham's

4. Shellshock

5. Bunter Brings a Letter

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Ep.300 Lord Peter Wimsey: Whose Body? Shellshock Nov 02, 2022

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Ian Carmichael stars as Lord Peter Wimsey in these classic BBC radio dramatisations of Dorothy L Sayers' Golden Age crime novels.

1. The Body in the Bath

2. Disappearance of a Financier

3. Lunch at Lady Swaffham's