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BONUS - Five Favorites: Crime Classics
BONUS - Five Favorites: Crime Classics
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Length:
157 minutes
Released:
Jul 3, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
In this bonus episode, I'm sharing my five favorite installments of Crime Classics - the anthology of true crime stories taken from the pages of history. "Connaisseur of crime" Thomas Hyland (played by Lou Merrill) narrated the tales that ranged from BC until recent history. A dismembered corpse stuns Boston society in "The Terrible Deed of John White Webster" (originally aired on CBS on July 13, 1953), and a woman's murder of her philandering boyfriend is only the beginning of the story in "The Incredible Trial of Laura D. Fair" (AFRS rebroadcast from August 17, 1953). A pair of enterprising young men enter the corpse procurement business in "If a Body Need a Body, Just Call Burke and Hare" (originally aired on CBS on December 2, 1953). Plus, two of history's most notorious murders are dramatized - "The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln" (originally aired on CBS on December 9, 1953) and "Twenty-Three Knives Against Caesar" (originally aired on CBS on February 10, 1954).
Released:
Jul 3, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Episode 1 - Spadework (Adventures of Sam Spade): We kick things off with "the greatest private detective of them all," Sam Spade. Hear Howard Duff as Spade in "The Apple of Eve Caper," first broadcast on CBS on June 19, 1949. by Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)