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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Old Time Radio snack Wagon. Today we're

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serving up something extra special. Wings Over Jordan was one

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of the highest rated sustaining programs that air during the

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Golden Age of radio, with an original ten year run

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of more than five hundred undred episodes. Since then it

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slid into obscurity, but I think it's worth remembering. The

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series began with the tireless efforts of Reverend Glenn Subtle,

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pastor of the Gsemine Baptist Church, a Black congregation in

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Cleveland that had predominantly migrated from the South. Cleveland is

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and was a multi ethnic city at the time. On Sunday,

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WGAOR Radio had programming blocks dedicated to all the city's

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major ethnic groups, but nothing for the city's black population.

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WGAR program director Worth Kramer launched the Negro Or, with

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the Gosemine Choir providing the music, usually a selection of

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hymns and Negro spirituals. CBS picked up the series and

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took it national, and it was renamed Wings Over Jordan.

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Wings Over Jordan featured beautiful choral music as well as

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a guest speaker on a variety of topics, and some

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of these guest speakers might be community and religious leaders,

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and at least one episode, actress Hattie McDaniel appeared after

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winning the Oscar for her performance in Gone with the Win.

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But each speaker served to bring to a national audience

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the stories and concerns of Black Americans. Some tell stories

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of predominantly black neighborhoods where the radios would all be

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tuned to Wings Over Jordan, with the radio on the

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porch or the windows open so that others could hear.

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Yet the audience crossed racial lines, with supporters including First

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Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New York City.

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The series recorded more than five hundred episodes. I am

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only aware of the existence of one broadcast. This was

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an Armed Forces Radio Service broadcast which included the music

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and Reverend Subtle's narration, but not a guest speaker. I

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can't give a specific date for the program, except that

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it aired sometime between nineteen forty two and nineteen forty six.

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Here now is Wings Over Jordan.

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Speaker 5: Wings Over Jordan. Here is the originator and director of

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Wings Over Jordan, the Reverend Plenty settled Wings.

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Speaker 6: Over Jordan, enchanting and glorious From over Yon Mystic Divide

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comes the assurance and hope that he is an ever

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present help in trouble and a friend that never fails.

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Pause for a moment and gain a replacement A do.

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Then go on your way with a song in your

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soul for another week. Careless living often results in years

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of misery and regrettable sorrows. If it were only in

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this life that we suffered, it wouldn't seem so terrible

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after all. But the croops of the whole matter is,

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you've got to give an account in the judgment. So

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you'd better mind.

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Speaker 7: Oh you votab.

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Speaker 8: You give me anybody that judgment? You oh, you bet

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you you got to give any judgment you you got

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Speaker 9: You got to give anybody that judgment.

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Speaker 10: You know.

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Speaker 8: You got mom ah you free.

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Speaker 7: You got to give anybod judgment.

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Speaker 8: Oh you bet, you know you got you got to

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give anybody that you Oh you you know you.

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Speaker 8: You know.

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Speaker 12: You Madamise, you got to give out of that.

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Speaker 11: Vision of.

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Speaker 12: You Medibi Metamile, you got to get out of that.

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Speaker 10: Vision of See.

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Speaker 6: So Dandy leaves the choir. In our next number today Alva.

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Speaker 7: Give Indeed.

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Speaker 13: Alba fun its school.

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Speaker 10: O City song a b.

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Speaker 14: Indie war.

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Speaker 16: Oh what I'm doing day.

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Speaker 15: Or the day.

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Speaker 7: About some great unclad.

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Speaker 2: For oh.

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Speaker 8: I have a dilo.

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Speaker 14: Be thy fool to take my be with the blest.

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Speaker 13: Day we all.

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Speaker 6: The Babylonian prophet looked up to behold of stone leaping

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out of the mountain to start its perilous journey through

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the temptations and hidden snares of this wicked world. One

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day I step into the path and made and now

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I need your prayers to help me, for I too

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am a rolling through an unfriendly world.

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Speaker 9: Thank me, oh sister, what you were?

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Speaker 5: A sister?

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Speaker 17: What you have me to see?

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Speaker 8: Oh sister, what you have?

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Speaker 15: What you had been?

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Speaker 7: The sadsall?

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Speaker 11: I'm all, Oh brother, want you heard me?

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Speaker 16: Oh brother?

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Speaker 7: Won't you have me to pray?

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Speaker 10: Oh brother?

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Speaker 11: Want to hear me?

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Speaker 3: Won't you have me?

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Speaker 8: In the sadasi ball, I'm all, I'm.

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Speaker 15: I'm all.

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Speaker 9: Thank you, I'm.

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Speaker 3: Oh preacher, want to hear me? Oh preacher?

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Speaker 10: Won't you have me to pray? Oh preach?

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Speaker 4: You want to hear of me?

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Speaker 17: Mut you happy?

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Speaker 3: In the sad sall?

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Speaker 12: I'm all?

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Speaker 6: And all the choir gives you the most consoling song.

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Speaker 2: Can, when.

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Speaker 4: Uh this.

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Speaker 8: A my fall and my Lord pay.

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Speaker 10: Me?

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Speaker 18: After have done.

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Speaker 3: Fun, I will fa.

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Speaker 2: When my.

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Speaker 8: Pa level.

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Speaker 18: We fast, when the.

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Speaker 16: I've done by.

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Speaker 10: On the.

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Speaker 19: F not with.

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Speaker 12: My day, It's happen antment. Oh yes, I'm I'm contentive.

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Speaker 7: Down in the Age of.

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Speaker 13: Seven pool he hello people, Yes.

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Speaker 12: I'm I'm not, contends Daniel of Lions.

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Speaker 10: A little more Mondy Lion.

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Speaker 20: Tool for the past quarter hour you have been listening

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to the Wings Over Jordan Corel Ensemble, under the direction

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of the Reverend Glenn t set a presentation of the

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Armed Forces Radio.

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Speaker 21: Service Welcome back.

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Speaker 1: Wings Over Jordan will remain a presence in American music

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and culture for decades. The group would have numerous tours

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both before and after the war. Their talent would open

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doors that were closed to other black performers of the era,

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particularly in segregated areas of the country. During the war,

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the choir was in great demand to come overseas and

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were the largest single group of performers brought overseas, and

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initially they were scheduled to do a six month tour

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of Europe, which was later extended to ten months. There

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was even more touring after the war. The group continued

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to perform even after left radio, with new members, record deals,

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satellite choirs, and eventually a celebration chorus that formed in

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the nineteen eighties to celebrate the group's legacy. This is

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one of the more intriguing series I've come across, with

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so much to its stories, and while it's the only

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episode in circulation, there are records, albums, and histories who

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find themselves hungry for more after listening to this week's

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Old Time Radio snack Welcome to the Old Time Radio

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snack Wagon. We're this week we're serving out by diamond

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Studied Delight. Diamonds have fascinated mankind for millennia. They've been

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the basis of many fortunes and empires, and also the

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cause of much bloodshed. They were a natural inspiration for

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a radio drama series. In nineteen thirty four, The Diamond

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Drama Series was broadcast over KYDL Radio in Salt Lake City.

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The series was sponsored by Miracle Diamonds, not an actual

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diamond company, but a company that sold diamond shaped laxative

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salts derived from the Great Salt Lake, and it was

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owned by Sidney Fox, who also owned KYDL. Fox took

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the series national as a syndicated show under the sponsorship

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of Davidson Leaked Jewelry Company and the Grew and Watch Company.

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This is a series that we did feature in our

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very first Amazing World of Radio mini series in twenty seventeen,

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although today we're bringing you a different episode than I

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played seven years ago. I don't have any logs for

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the original Salt Lake City run, but we do have

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a log for in. The series was broadcast in Oakland

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in nineteen thirty five. Bays episode aired on October fourteenth,

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nineteen thirty five, and the title is The Pitt Diamond.

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Speaker 22: In the year seventeen hundred and one, Thomas Pitt, or

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Diamond Pitt, as he was called, was governor of the

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city of Madras in India. He was an interesting personality,

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a soldier of fortune who had set up business in

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opposition to the powerful East India Company at length. That

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same company, realizing the brilliance of Pitt, took him into

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the term where he became a powerful factor. One day,

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as usual, he was seated in his office, busily at work.

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Speaker 3: Yes, how would I have?

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Speaker 10: Do you that?

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Speaker 3: About some Hindu wanting to see me?

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Speaker 23: Maybe by the name of Balkiva.

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Speaker 12: Sir.

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Speaker 3: He's in charge of a native unit at Bulcando Mine. Yes,

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I believe he is connected in some way. Well, why

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didn't you tell me?

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Speaker 24: It slipped my mind?

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Speaker 3: Mister could tell a Barkieva to come in immediately. Very good,

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mister Pitt, I wonder come in bout Evan is well

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quite well? Back, Gep, I.

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Speaker 23: Bring something to the s I hear from the men

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in blond That governor like the diamonds. I think perhaps

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the governor Sai might like what I have here.

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Speaker 25: Yeah, yeah, hell let me there, good heaven. Why it

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is bigger than you do? You know much about diamond?

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Speaker 3: It is not a diamond? Then, not a diamond? Why

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it's the most wonderful one I've ever Well, where where

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did you get I found it? Bound?

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Speaker 23: Yes, I found it by the past.

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Speaker 3: You did well to bring it here back ev.

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Speaker 23: I was afraid to let anyone else see it. I

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did not want to be cuts.

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Speaker 3: Of course, the diamond is not cut and there might

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be flaws. You know then you oh, I didn't say that. Well,

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what do you ask for it?

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Speaker 10: Sahib?

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Speaker 23: Will tell me what you will say? Let me see.

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Speaker 25: I'll pay you what do you say to one thousand

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pounds one thousand pounds?

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Speaker 23: I will tell it to the Sahib for one thousand pounds.

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Speaker 3: Good badman by factory will give you the money you need.

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Speaker 25: Buy it now, Sahib, Yes, but only on one condition

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that you say nothing about it to anyone.

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Speaker 3: Nothing.

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Speaker 25: Yeah, take barkeeper with you, badmin paying one thousand pounds

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of my own money, you I asked, Now, this is

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a bargain barkeeper. What I said will not be necessary

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for you to return to go Kanda. Then, yes, may

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prosperity come to you, Sahib, you.

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Speaker 3: Never pay that bad win in the barckapers well treated, goodbye,

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back Evan, farewell.

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Speaker 26: Now let me wear it more than two hundred three

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hundred happy surely it's not Yeah, that's that's balanced four

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one hundred and ten carriages.

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Speaker 3: Why this stone is worth a king's ransom and it's

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mine mine.

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Speaker 27: I can buy the world with it and it only

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costs me one thousand pounds.

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Speaker 3: So much, mister, thank you.

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Speaker 28: Oh, I watched your career with so much interest.

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Speaker 3: You here the most amorous place.

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Speaker 25: Well, frankly, lady, I found it very hot, muggy.

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Speaker 3: The bogs of England are more to my liking.

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Speaker 28: Tell me, did you really wait two years before selling

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the diamond?

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Speaker 3: And that is a subject I would rather not discuss.

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Speaker 28: I was wondering if you forgot.

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Speaker 3: Oh, by no means, Marian, excuse me, lady.

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Speaker 4: Won't you certainly?

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Speaker 25: Certainly, I'm Marian. Will it's part in here and it's

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a beautiful night. Let's go out on the balcony. You

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can watch the people in the garden.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it is beautiful.

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Speaker 28: I suppose I suppose you feel that this is your triumph, Tom,

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with wonderful estate, all these people begging for your favor.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it is my triumph. Marion.

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Speaker 25: You may not have heard that I finally sold the

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diamond for one hundred and thirty five thousand pounds.

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Speaker 28: Yes, I heard of it. Who has not? I heard

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you sold it to sons.

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Speaker 25: Yes, yes, the Duke of Orleans bought it for Lewis.

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I understand they would call it the Regent Diamond.

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Speaker 28: Then it was a good investment. After all, you don't

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seem very pleased about it, Marion, right, yes, I am Tom.

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It's a great night for the towns I used to know.

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Speaker 3: Don't say used you know, Marion? You know me now?

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Speaker 28: Yes, but it's all so different. You're a great man now,

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who have married into one of England's greatest houses. The

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Court of Sance knows you that I'm only Marian Trent,

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a poor man's wife.

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Speaker 23: It is a bit different.

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Speaker 28: You must admit.

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Speaker 3: You know why we're out on this balcony alone. I

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want to talk to you. I am an old friend.

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Let me help you and your husband.

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Speaker 28: Why Tom, how did you know that.

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Speaker 3: We Let me help you. Please, I can do it easily.

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Speaker 28: I don't know what you're talking about, Tom.

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Speaker 25: Yes you do, Marion. I'm talking about those Indian bands

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of your husband. I know that he's facing bankruptcy, and

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I know that that would mean bitter poverty, and it's

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great for you all of that. Let me give you

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the money, Marian.

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Speaker 28: Why do you wish to help me? We've been strangers

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to each other for ten years.

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Speaker 3: Marian, why did I let you go?

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Speaker 28: Please? Remember you are married to someone else.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I threw my happiness away, I gambled.

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Speaker 28: I don't see why you were unhappy. Your diameters brought

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you a tremendous fortune. You have a devoted wife whose

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father gave her a huge dollies. Since you returned from

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India sixteen years ago, you've had everything you wanted.

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Speaker 25: I have everything I want except the one thing I

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want the most.

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Speaker 1: Please.

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Speaker 25: You know as well as I'm Maryan that I love you.

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From the first day I saw you ten years ago,

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you were the woman for me. Say yes to me,

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I'll do anything for you. I didn't give you anything

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you want in the world, and you could give me

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the happiness I lost.

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Speaker 28: You say that to me now, when I am married

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to another man, when I've borne his children, when you

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know that I love him, but you won't love me.

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Speaker 3: Mary, you can.

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Speaker 28: Yes, I loved you, but I soon found out that

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the thing you loved this in the world was not

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me but your diamond. You're a big table that you

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treasured above all things on earth. Mary, Yes, Tom, that

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is why I gave you up. It would have had

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to be me or the diamond. And I knew you

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too well to expect you to give up the diamond.

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Speaker 3: But Mary, and I don't understand the diamond yours too.

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Speaker 12: Would it?

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Speaker 28: I doubt that Tom, you were more jealous of that

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huge rock stone than a man is ever of a

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beautiful wife. When I first met you, you were in

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the act of change in your lodging because you were

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afraid someone was planning to rob you here. Six months

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I knew you. You changed your room seven times. You

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were disguised as whenever we went to the theater, whenever

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we were together, I felt that you longed to be

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back in your room, guarding that great glittering mass. Is

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it any wonder that at last I realized we could

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never have any happiness together. Don't deny it. You talk

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to me of love now, because you have nothing else left.

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You cannot buy. You made money and position your God,

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and you serve them faithfully. You and I have nothing

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to say to one another.

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Speaker 3: We're being very hard on me.

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Speaker 28: Can you expect anything else?

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Speaker 3: I want your love.

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Speaker 28: I'm afraid it's too late for that now. Town ten

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years ago, it might have been very different.

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Speaker 3: Then there's no chance for me.

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Speaker 28: No, I cannot sell my love.

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Speaker 25: I suppose I deserved it. Oh, we pay for everything

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we have in this world. Sometimes I think I paid

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too great a price. I paid for that diamond with

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my very soul from the time of Hindu put it

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into my hand. That diamond possessed every wakened moment of

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my life. First time, I was confident I would find

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an immediate buyer. As the years went by and nobody

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would pay the price I asked, I grew half mad

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with disappointment. There were times when I hated that diamond,

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when I would have longed to throw it into the

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sea and throw myself after it.

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Speaker 3: Then there was a night when.

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Speaker 25: I no, no, no, I can't tell you.

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Speaker 3: Well you know me for what I am after.

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Speaker 25: All, I may as well tell you there was one

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night when I did throw it out of the window.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes I did.

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Speaker 25: I was crazed with horror what I thought might be

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done with it, and I rushed into the street. I

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called on my hands and knee in the mud, calling

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on God to help me. Lying in the fi figure.

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That's what it did for me. And when at last

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I sold it, all the money in the world couldn't

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bring back myself.

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Speaker 3: You humbled me enough, go on into the house. I

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won't see please, I followed.

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Speaker 28: In the moment, are you sure?

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Speaker 3: Thanks to many showing me e oh oh to well?

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Coime me a moment.

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Speaker 23: I want to you.

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Speaker 3: You've been with me a great many years, haven't you.

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I can trust you. I hope that you can.

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Speaker 25: Now Tomorrow I want you to range to the East

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India Company to buy all the Indian bonds belonging to

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James Train. Yes, I know, but do as I say.

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And this, by the way, un there's no circumstances. Let

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anyone know that I am the buyer. It's merely a little,

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a little private death.

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Speaker 10: In the.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. A fascinating story, if a bit embellished. Golden

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Age radio programs did a great job highlighting real historical

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events that had often become obscure, but often they couldn't

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help but gild the lily in the name of telling

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a more interesting story. That's certainly the case here. The

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real story of the Pitt Diamond is a little different

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than portrayed in this episode. For one thing, the romance

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angle didn't happen, at least not as it was described

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in the drama. Governor Pitt wasn't a free man, as

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he'd been married for two decades at the time of

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acquiring the diamond, and his wife would actually outlive him. Second,

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the diamond wasn't quite the steal it was made out

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to be. The seller of the diamond actually showed up

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to Governor Pitt asking for one hundred thousand pounds, and

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through negotiations, Pitt got the pross down to around twenty

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thousand pounds, reasoning that he didn't like to spend that

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much money on a single business transaction, and obviously he

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was quite far away from sort of experts who could

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help fully evaluate the diamond and facilitate the transaction. Now,

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where the thousand pound figure could have come from is

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that the man who showed up to sell pit. The

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diamond had actually acquired it from a sea captain for

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a thousand pounds after the sea captain had dolen it

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from a slave and murdered him. But that didn't have

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anything to do with Governor Pitt. Well, I think they

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combined some details. For Pitt's part, he said the diamond

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back to England hidden in the heel of one of

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his son's boots. Was then sent to a diamond cutter

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in London. We spent two years cutting the diamond at

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the cost of five thousand pounds. Now, in addition to

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the Regent's diamond, there was a smaller diamond cut from

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the original stone that was sold to Peter the Great

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of Russia for seven thousand pounds, and then, sixteen years

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after Pitt acquired the original, the regent diamond was sold

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to the Duke of Orleans for one hundred and thirty

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five thousand pounds, which is the equivalent in today's money

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of twenty one point eight million pounds sterling. It had

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many uses over the years, including Marie Antoinette's decision to

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wear it on one of her hats, which might have

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been a mistake. As for the program's claim a pit

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having trouble as a result of possessing the diamond, and

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some of the events and obsessiveness. I couldn't find any

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supporting documents, but I have to admit that I didn't

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take a deep dive into obscure libraries. Fabulous diamonds, trouble,

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and anxiety all run together, so I don't doubt some

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version of those events happen. It's worth noting that the

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log information for this series came from the website the

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Digital Dela FTP. While it's defunct and no longer online,

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you can find its cash pages on the internet archive.

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The Digital Deli claimed that these episodes were recorded in

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nineteen twenty six or nineteen twenty seven, which would make

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them remarkably old. However, it doesn't cit any source for

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this claim, and I can't find any record of them

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airing before nineteen thirty four. It is also possible that

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there was a separate run of Diamond dramas that were

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aired live back in nineteen twenty six or twenty seven,

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and that Fox opted to re record them for potential syndication. Regardless,

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the series would make periodic comebacks into the nineteen forties.

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One of the great benefits of syndicated series is that

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they could always be resold for different stations years and

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years after their first issue. While Fox didn't quite get

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the same return on his investment as Governor Pitt did

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on the purchase of the Regent Diamond, series did prove

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a great friend to sponsors and syndicators alike for.

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Speaker 21: Years to come.

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Speaker 1: This week's Old time radio snacks going to be Australian style.

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Australia had its own Golden Age of radio, with numerous

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networks and syndicators producing a wide variety of programs. Some

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of these were remakes of American radio scripts in Australia

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and fans of a variety of American shows from The

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Fat Man to The Shadow and Charlie Chan have likely

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encountered these sort of programs. However, Australia produced many fine

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programs of its own. Among these syndicators with the widest

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rate was our transa originally known as the American Radio

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Transcription Agencies, whose original goal was to sell American radio

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shows to Australian stations. However, directly importing American radio dramas

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was banned, and so many companies imported American radio scripts

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and then had them reperformed by Australian actors. Are Transit

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did some of this. They created the Australian version of

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Gun Smoke, as well as a few other programs, but

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mostly our Transit tended to make original radio dramas for

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the Australian market, such as the crime and smuggling series

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Forbidden Cargo. Today's episode is from a very obscure series

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that is not actually listed by any of the online

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resources that list all of the radio dramas are Transit produced. However,

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I was able to confirm from newspaper logs that it

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aired in nineteen thirty eight. The series is Famous Escapes,

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which pretty much is exactly what it sounds like. So

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here now is the twenty fourth episode, Escape from Robespierre.

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Speaker 17: Famous Escapes.

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Speaker 15: This is a story of the French Revolution.

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Speaker 29: By the year seventeen ninety three, the revolutionaries and the

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Robspire were in supreme power, but the violence of their

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rule provoked a counter revolution in Brittany. One of the

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most dreaded of the counter revolutionary leaders was the Count Maya,

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and at his headquarters this story opens.

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Speaker 30: The Storm wishes to see himself choke him in.

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Speaker 10: The marquis of storm.

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Speaker 17: Come in the storm.

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Speaker 15: Thank you, demayo down what brings you to headquarters? I

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desire leave of absence. You need a holiday.

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Speaker 10: I wish to visit Paris.

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Speaker 15: Perry, you want to commit suicide. My wife is in Paris.

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I thought she was safe in Normandy. Her mother was

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captured by the revolutionaries. There was no time to consult me.

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She rode first haste for Paris.

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Speaker 23: What did she hope to do?

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Speaker 15: God knows whatever she hoped, she was too late. Her

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mother had gone to the guillotine before she arrived.

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Speaker 10: And your wife is Sheen's risen.

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Speaker 15: No, so far she is safe. The Committee of Public

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Safety does not even know of her arrival. But she

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can't get out of the city. The new passport regulations

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are too strict. And you propose to put your head

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into the lion's mouth. I must get her out of

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Paris to Maya. If she stays there, they'll find her

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sooner or later. You don't read me here, you're the

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backbone of our force.

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Speaker 10: All right, the stock you may go. My grass can

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take over your command. Thanks you, Dermaiah. And here's your brother.

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Speaker 15: Come in Armore. I've come to report.

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Speaker 10: What are you doing here of it.

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Speaker 15: I'm leaving for Paris at once.

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Speaker 17: Your foolish brother.

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Speaker 15: Insists on putting his head into the lion's mouth.

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Speaker 10: Arma, Oh Death is in Paris.

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Speaker 15: She has not been captured. But if you go to Paris,

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you'll be recognized. Now I won't. I'll go in disguise.

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I will make my preparations. Now I'll see you before

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I leave.

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Speaker 10: Now, arm what is that report you were so anxious

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to make?

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Speaker 15: Sergeant Picard reports three cases of typus.

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Speaker 23: That's serious.

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Speaker 15: Yes, a far more dangerous foe than the Revolutionary Army is.

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Speaker 10: Yes, we mist set the word to organize medicale. Oh Death,

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are you there?

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Speaker 15: Oh Death, my darling.

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Speaker 11: I hardly knew you in your disky.

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Speaker 15: That's what he was doing in Paris.

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Speaker 31: I thought you were with the Maya's Army in Brittany, and.

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Speaker 10: I thought you were safe in Normandy. Arrived too late, Robins.

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Speaker 8: But it's over.

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Speaker 15: How goes the Maya's Army? Well enough for a plague

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of typhus, which broke out as before I left.

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Speaker 10: But the business. We must think of a way of

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getting you out of Paris.

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Speaker 31: The passport regulations are so.

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Speaker 10: Strict, pro there must be a way out.

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Speaker 12: You didn't bother about passports.

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Speaker 10: Citizens, it's a national god.

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Speaker 17: You won't be needing passports either of you.

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Speaker 10: You're under arrest.

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Speaker 15: Guilty me if you will, but at least let my

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wife go free. I will not go without your You needn't.

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Speaker 10: Worry about that.

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Speaker 15: Citizens, you will stay with your husband.

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Speaker 17: All right?

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Speaker 15: But what harm has my wife done? She is an

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aristocrat and jai that's enough.

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Speaker 10: So we are grateful to her.

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Speaker 15: I must say grateful to me.

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Speaker 29: You were the fait that lured your husband into the trap.

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We've been watching this room for the last week. Citizens,

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all right, sergeant.

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Speaker 23: They didn't understand the star.

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Speaker 25: You have been found guilty of conspiracy against the Republic.

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Speaker 32: You are sentenced to die by the guilloteam.

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Speaker 3: Long live the Republic.

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Speaker 15: Thank you, Citizen Robespierre.

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Speaker 10: You are armand' th farmer, Count de Storm.

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Speaker 30: Yes, you are a brother of the former Marquis Robert

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de Ston, who, with his wife, was last week condemned

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to the guillot team. Yes, you have been serving with

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the counter revolutionary army of the Mayeur in Lavonde.

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Speaker 15: I have, but I came to Paris with a safe

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conduct from the commander of the Republican army at La Mont.

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Speaker 30: If I were not aware of that, you would before

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this have been lodged in the conciergerie.

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Speaker 15: Why were you granted this safe conduct? Because I have

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matters to discuss with you which affect the safety of

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the Republic. Well, and I heard last night that my

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brother and his wife had been condemned to the guillotine.

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I was at Laffish, one hundred and twenty miles away.

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Speaker 10: You have ridden path and.

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Speaker 15: Pa I have ridden to save my brother. How do

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you propose to do that? My brother and his wife

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do not constitute a real danger to your party, not.

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Speaker 30: In themselves perhaps, but they.

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Speaker 15: Are part of a class which is a menace to

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the Republic. Every member of it must be destried. But

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suppose that for this comparatively harmless pair I were able

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to give you the most dangerous enemy of the Republic

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in love on death.

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Speaker 10: You don't mean the Maya.

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Speaker 30: Yes, you mean that the Maya will offer himself in

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exchange for them.

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Speaker 15: He will not offer himself. It is I will make

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the offer. You are a traitor to your own The

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safety of my own brother is more precious to me

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than your good opinion.

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Speaker 30: But how can the Mayeur be delivered to us if

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he is not willing?

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Speaker 15: If you will meet me on the outskirts of La

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Montz tomorrow evening, I will see that the Mayeur is there.

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Suppose I cannot deliver him alive, that is your affair.

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If the Maya is delivered to me tomorrow at nine o'clock,

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dead or alive, I will release your brother and his wife.

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And his wife. You must be accompanied by not more

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than two men.

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Speaker 10: You wish me to be there in person.

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Speaker 15: Your word is known to be your bond, Citizen Robespierre.

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But for your subordinate how do I know that this

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is not a trap. If I am willing to trust

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the word of a Robespiere, surely you will not kevin

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at the word of a dusk store.

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Speaker 10: Very well, Citizen the store with two.

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Speaker 30: Men, I will have the prisoners at the sign post

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one mile out of Laments on the road to them

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at nine o'clock to Modrow night. At nine o'clock tomorrow night, you,

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for your path, must be accompanied by only two men.

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Speaker 23: Very well, Citizen Robespiere.

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Speaker 10: Good day, Good.

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Speaker 30: Day, Citizens Moutier. Tell them to give this citizen a

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safe conduct to Lavonte.

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Speaker 15: Give this citizen, a safe conduct to lavonte.

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Speaker 10: H It is a good bargain, Citizen.

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Speaker 23: A harmless pair for that tiger.

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Speaker 29: The sign post is a quarter of a mile down

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the road, Citizen, robes Pierre Moutier.

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Speaker 30: You and Espalion will accompany me and the prisoners. The

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rest of you will remain here. If you hear any

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sound of a struggle, or have reason to affecting it treachery,

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you will gallop forward immediately.

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Speaker 10: Well why have we been brought here, robespear? You will

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learn in due cars.

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Speaker 15: Do not torture, Citizen Robespierre.

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Speaker 31: If we've been brought here to be put to dead.

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Speaker 15: You have not been brought here to be put to death.

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Are the prisoners tied to their settles?

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Speaker 10: Mutier?

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Speaker 29: Yes, Citizen, they won't get away, good Mutier.

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Speaker 30: I will ride first, you and the spalion will follow

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with the prisoners.

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Speaker 3: Very well, Citizen, forward.

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Speaker 17: The sign post, Citizen, robs Pierre.

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Speaker 10: Part is that you the storm? Yes?

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Speaker 15: Yeah, Rob, it's.

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Speaker 21: You, Rob.

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Speaker 15: It will soon be feed.

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Speaker 10: Where is the my years in this car? Is he

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tied up? Yes?

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Speaker 15: Show him to me. I'm another back of the cart.

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See there he.

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Speaker 30: Is hould up your lantern, Montierre yeah, it's the my year,

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all right.

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Speaker 10: He looks a queer color you had You must have had.

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Speaker 30: Some difficulty in inducing citizens my year to accompany you.

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Speaker 15: I need hardly tell you that my colleagues and the

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army would have prevented me from bringing him had they known.

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Speaker 10: What was I dare that? He looks as though he's drugged?

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Did you drug him the storm?

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Speaker 15: What does it matter to you whether he's drugged or not?

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Speaker 10: There he is? That is very true.

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Speaker 15: Now carry out your part of the bargain.

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Speaker 10: Robs Pierre always keeps his word.

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Speaker 15: Cut the prisoner's free.

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Speaker 10: Multi yeah, yeah, yeah, e free.

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Speaker 30: Now right on the star, you have half an hour's

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grace before any attempt will be made to recapture you.

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Speaker 15: Come, rabbit and your debt.

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Speaker 12: Ride.

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Speaker 15: What has happened? Have you exchanged us for the mayeur?

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There's no time for talk. Rops Pierre might change his

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mind right on ride like the wind. We have gone

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hard enough. Now we can rest in his hut until morning.

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But I do not understand even to save my life,

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and that about debt. Surely you would not betray the

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Mayers the Republicans as simple you remember that an epidemic

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of Typhus had just begun when you left our camp. Yes,

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I heard that your your debt had been sentenced to

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the guillotine, and I.

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Speaker 10: Was in despair.

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Speaker 15: Then I had an idea. What I wrote to Paris

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and offered to exchange them my year for a pair

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of your That's what I don't understand.

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Speaker 10: And my year was dead.

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Speaker 15: He had died of the Titus no wonder of Spierre

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thought he looked a queer color. I arranged that the

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exchange should take place at night, so that they could

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not examine him closely. But then you broke your word

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to Robspear, I did not break my word. He agreed

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to accept my year alive or dead. He has him dead,

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so long as you feel comfortable about it.

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Speaker 33: Where do we go now?

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Speaker 15: Back to the camp, No, Robin. With the death of

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them my year, our army has dispersed the resistance in Lavander.

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Speaker 3: Is that an end? Then, he is?

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Speaker 15: We make for England and safety. In England we will

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be able to begin our lives a fresh and build up.

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Speaker 10: But the revolution has destroyed for us.

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Speaker 29: In France, armand Robert Odette reached the coast safely and

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escaped to England.

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Speaker 15: The Breton fishing boat.

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Speaker 29: There they settled down to the happy and useful lives

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which were impossible for them into France at that time.

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Speaker 1: Welcome Back, a good story, a clever rose to escape, Robespear,

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and overall a really nice dramatization of a historical band.

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I love the power of these short, fifteen minute programs

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to bring out these really interesting incidents and never overstay

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their welcomes. And this is pretty much as good as

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similar programs from the States. And even though I hadn't

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heard of the show before stumbling onto it randomly, this

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is a series I wouldn't mind escaping to again. When

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I first started the old time radio snack Wagon, I

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didn't plan on doing any series in its entirety or

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the entirety of available episodes. However, we're going to make

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an exception for one series due to its unique format.

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Abroad with the Lockhearts is about a husband and wife

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going on a trip to Europe played by a husband

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and wife who had been to Europe. Starred the husband

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and wife acting duo of Gene and Kathleen Lockhart, who

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are the parents of June Lockhart, best known to many

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of us as Missus Robinson from Lost in Space. The

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characters have the last name Lockhart, although the husband is

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named Will, and Missus Lockhart's first name is never used.

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What makes the show noteworthy is when it aired. The

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earliest air dates for the series were from August seventeenth,

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nineteen thirty. This is one of the earliest radio series

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we have in existence. One of the newspaper reports indicated

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that the storyline was based on the Lockhart's own actual

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experience of traveling to Europe. Of course, before you can

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get to Europe, you have to decide to leave. I

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doubt Jean Lockhart needed much prauding his character Will. On

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the other hand, well, that's another s story. Let's find

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out about it. Here is episode one of Abroad with

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the Lockharts, planning a trip to Europe from August seventeenth,

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nineteen thirty.

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Speaker 33: Tonight we inaugurate a series of broadcast episodes over this

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station entitled Abroad with the Lockhart. Mister and Missus Lockhart

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are the typical American mister and missus who go abroad.

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Mister Lockhart is a businessman, comfortable, blunt, knows his own mind,

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enjoys his business and his community. A plain American businessman.

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Missus Lockhart is the pleasant type of American wife, a

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thorough housekeeper, belongs to the woman's club and the literary

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club of her town, and still retains the spirit of romance.

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Their complex situations, we are certain will delight the friends

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of this station each week. The scene tonight is the

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living room of the Lockharts.

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Speaker 31: Real, are you busy?

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Speaker 2: I'm reading.

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Speaker 32: I see where Hoover was fishing again last weekend.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but he didn't catch any.

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Speaker 32: I bet he thinks that fish are almost as stubborn senators.

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Speaker 24: He can't be using the right bait. Now, when I

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go fishing this.

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Speaker 31: Summer, that's what I want to talk to you about.

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Speaker 32: Fishing, my certainly, my dear, why didn't you say so?

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Turn off the radio?

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Speaker 34: No, dear, not fishing. Well, what then, I want to

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talk to you about this summer?

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Speaker 24: Well, this summer means fishing to me, dear.

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Speaker 31: I want to show you something here. It is.

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Speaker 3: What's this?

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Speaker 34: It's a tecular circular about what a circular about Europe?

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Speaker 24: Oh so that's it. I threw out about fifty of

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those things last week. They were all over the house.

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Speaker 31: I just want you to look at it.

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Speaker 3: Well, leave it here.

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Speaker 24: I'll look at it later on.

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Speaker 31: I want you to look at it now, dear.

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Speaker 24: Oh well, where my glasses on your forehead? You know

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these circulars are a delusion. They only tell you what

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they want you to know, not what you ought to know. Now,

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let's see for Europe with us seven glorious countries, fifty

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wonderful days.

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Speaker 31: Oh isn't it thrilling?

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Speaker 2: Dear?

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Speaker 24: Maybe? But I don't want to go to Europe. I

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want to go fishing.

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Speaker 34: Do you know what year this is? I do well,

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I don't think you do. This is our tenth anniversary year,

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and you promised me that you give me just what

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I wanted, did I? And I want a trip to Europe.

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Speaker 31: Nearly every other.

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Speaker 34: Woman at our club has been to Europe, And I'm

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beginning to feel such a frump that isn't as if

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we couldn't support it, And I want you to take me.

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Speaker 24: Isn't this kind of sudden?

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Speaker 34: Now? I've only mentioned it once a day for the

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last six months.

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Speaker 32: Oh but shucks, I just thought you were only talking read.

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Speaker 31: The circular dear. See six days of calm seas and

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sunny skies and b a storm.

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Speaker 24: No, Harry, Harry.

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Speaker 31: The French people call it p oh.

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Speaker 24: So that's why you've been having this French teacher here

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every week.

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Speaker 31: Yes, dear, I want to be able to take you

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around Perry myself. We'll visit the Tweelery.

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Speaker 24: Who are they?

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Speaker 31: Oh they're not people, dear, it's a sort of a

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place for the garden. And then you'll see the invalid,

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My dear.

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Speaker 24: I don't want to go to Europe to visit Invalids.

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Speaker 31: Oh they're not Invalids, that's just a name.

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Speaker 35: What are they?

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Speaker 30: Then?

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Speaker 31: Now, that's just why I want you to go. I

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hear the other women talking about Invalids and the goblins.

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Speaker 34: Goblins or they must be those things on the top

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of the Notre Dame cathedral.

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Speaker 31: And then there's the mal Naison.

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Speaker 24: What's that well in.

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Speaker 31: English that means bad house, but it isn't. Then there's

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the Versailles Palace with four hundred rooms.

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Speaker 24: Stop right there. If you expect me to walk through

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four hundred rooms, that trips off.

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Speaker 31: No, dear, we don't have to. We don't have to

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walk through any of them. And then then there's then

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there's the museums. There's twenty four museums in terrace.

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Speaker 24: Now listen, my dear, I was in one museum in

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my life, the Eden Museum in New York, and that

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was enough for me.

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Speaker 31: Well, dear, we don't have to go into them.

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Speaker 24: I'd rather go fishing. You can fish in the same yes,

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and catch frogs.

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Speaker 31: Then we can walk through the mating prt more walking

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and see all those funny artists.

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Speaker 24: And we don't have to go to Europe to see

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funny artists. My dear. That fellow you had at your

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club last week, he was.

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Speaker 34: Oh, then we can go to Switzerland and see the

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elks and hear the yodlers.

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Speaker 24: But dear, we've heard the yodlers.

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Speaker 31: And then and then to Italy and go through all

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those marvelous cathedrals.

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Speaker 24: No cathedrals for me.

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Speaker 31: And in Rome we'll visit the catacombs.

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Speaker 24: Are they damp?

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Speaker 17: Well?

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Speaker 31: I don't know.

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Speaker 24: Well, no catacombs anyway, all right, dear.

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Speaker 31: But in Florence we can see all the wonderful tombs

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of the famous dead people.

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Speaker 24: I'd much rather go fishing.

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Speaker 31: And then we'll visit Vennis and ride in gondolas.

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Speaker 36: What do you call them?

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Speaker 31: Gondolas?

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Speaker 3: I thought it was gondolas.

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Speaker 31: Now that's just why a trip would be good for you.

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There you'll know how to pronounce all those names.

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Speaker 24: It's much easier to buy a dictionary.

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Speaker 31: Oh, why will you be so obstinate? Can't you see

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I've set my heart ongoing.

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Speaker 34: I'm tired of hearing other women say when I was

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in Paris and when I was in Rome. I tell you,

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I've made up my mind, and I'm going to Europe

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this summer, even if I have to.

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Speaker 31: Go alone alone, Yes, if I have to.

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Speaker 24: But what would I do? Who would look after me?

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Speaker 31: That's your affair. I think after ten years, I deserve

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the sort of holiday I want, and not the sort

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of holiday you want.

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Speaker 3: Are you in earnest?

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Speaker 31: I was never more in earnest in my life.

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Speaker 24: Well, dear, of course you know I always want you

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to have what you want, so I noticed, And if

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your mind is really made up it is, Well, well,

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all right, of course I'll have to cancel my fishing

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trip and see about our reservations on the steamer. Maybe

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maybe we can't get any I've.

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Speaker 34: Already made them what I've made reservations for sailing on

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the same day you were to.

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Speaker 31: Start a fishing trip.

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Speaker 34: Well, I'll be and dear, we're going to be in

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Venice on the night of our tenth anniversaries.

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Speaker 24: Are we Now that that's sort of nice and poetic life.

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I'm so thrilled we're now in just a minute. We've

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got to have an agreement. If I go to Europe

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with you, I don't want to walk eight miles a

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day getting educated, and I don't want to see any

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museums or cathedrals or catacombs or tombs of famous dead ones.

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Speaker 31: No, dear, No, you can do just as you like.

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You can sit in the car them.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's all right.

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Speaker 32: Of course there may be one or two of the

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important places I might like to see.

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Speaker 31: Certainly, be just as you lie.

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Speaker 24: Well, all right, that's settled.

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Speaker 31: Oh, you're a darling. Here's a kiss for you.

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Speaker 36: Now I'll have to call up Charlie.

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Speaker 24: Morris and tell them our fishing trip is off.

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Speaker 21: Lord, he'll be sore.

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Speaker 23: Hello, Operator Maine four three two one.

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Speaker 3: What sort of clothes do we wear?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 31: I have it all planned. You will take your plus four,

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your gray suit and.

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Speaker 34: Your dinner jacket and your dark suit, and I've ordered

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a tweet traveling suit and a summer driss.

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Speaker 31: Oh you have yes, here and the rest, well, the rest,

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I'll get him pasty.

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Speaker 3: Uh huh, I begin to see.

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Speaker 17: Hello.

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Speaker 32: Hello, is that you, Charlie?

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Speaker 35: This is Will speaking. Yes, say Charlie about that fishing trip.

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I'm afraid you'll have to count me out, count me out. No,

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I can't go.

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Speaker 1: That's what I said.

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Speaker 35: The wife and I are going to Europe. That's right.

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Speaker 23: Europe crazy, not that I know of. Now.

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Speaker 35: Now, wait a minute, Charlie. You see I've been thinking

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about it for some time. Oh yes, I have, and

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I've decided that the wife needs the trip. So I've

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made up my mind and I have a wonderful little

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tour plans and everything. Yeah, all right, Charlie, drop me

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a car if you catch any big ones.

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Speaker 21: Goodbye.

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Speaker 24: There we are.

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Speaker 31: Dear, you're the nicest husband of woman ever managed.

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Speaker 24: Well, I guess every husband would be nice if we

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had a wife like you. Now, let me study that

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circular a bit and see what we're going to get,

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and turn on the radio.

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Speaker 36: Dear, toward Europe with US seven glorious countries, fifty wonderful days.

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Speaker 2: Well we'll see.

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Speaker 33: Tour Europe with US seven glorious countries. Well, you have

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just started to go abroad.

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Speaker 3: With the Lockharts.

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Speaker 33: Next week is sailing day and this typical American mister

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and missus again will delight us from on shipboard. Be

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sure to tune in next week at the same hour

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and enjoy a trip abroad with the Lockharts.

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Speaker 21: Welcome back.

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Speaker 1: A good first episode, and off to say, the recording

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is in great shape for being ninety four years old.

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The episode intersperses a few humorous moments with helping us

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get to know our leads. Will is stubborn and said

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in his way his wife is hungry for adventure in

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romance and will be a bit pushy when she really

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wants something. Yet they genuinely seem to care for another.

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We'll I have to see on the course of this

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adventure whether Will is going to get into any catacombs

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or cathedrals. The timing of this series is intriguing because

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it started airing less than ten months after the stock

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market crash, so this was in the heart of the

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Great Depression. The Great Depression really hit a lot of

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people with mass unemployment, mass poverty, and a hard scrabble

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existence for many. I know that in my family, I

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remember the story of my grandfather having to quit school

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at age twelve to go work carrying railroad ties. If

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you were listening to radio in nineteen thirty, you were

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probably doing better than many. You owned a radio, ends

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you had electricity, though of course you could have been

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listening at a friend's house, or it could have been

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playing in a store somewhere. But obviously there was a

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big atmosphere of gloom and uncertainty over everyone. And while

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some Americans may have still been going on trips for

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business or pleasure, doubtless for many this.

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Speaker 23: Was no longer affordable or.

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Speaker 1: Practical, where they just didn't feel secure enough in their

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business to leave it to go abroad. Abroad with the

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Lockharts is a sort of series that offered escape from

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the grim present to some past, happy memories and allowed

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the listeners to take a trip on an luxury line

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to visit the great cities of Europe. And who knows,

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maybe better days would come and they'd be able to

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take that trip in person. But in nineteen thirty, most

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people could just dream. There are nine episodes of Abroad

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with the Lockharts that are in circulation. There are four

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missing episodes, but given the format of the series, it's

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not really.

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Speaker 21: A big deal.

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Speaker 1: We will break away from the series for one episode,

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but other than that we will go straight through the series,

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and we'll also take our summer break at the point

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that there are lost episodes. So we've got a great

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trip with the Lockharts, and I hope you enjoy the

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journey ahead. It's time for me to close up the

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Old Snackwagon, but don't worry. We'll be back with another

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serving of old time radio goodness before.

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Speaker 21: You know it.

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Speaker 1: If you want to enjoy some of our longer form podcasts,

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you can feast away at my website at Great Detectives

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dot net. Your emails are also welcome at Adam at

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snackwagon dot net.

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Speaker 4: The Old Time Radio Snackwagon comes to you from Boise, Idaho.

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Your host is Adam Graham. Production is by Rind's Media LLC.

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You can listen to past episodes of the Old Time

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Radio Snackwagon as well as connect on social media at

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our website at snackwagon dot net. Email suggestions for episodes

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to Adam at snackwagon dot net. This has been the

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Old Time Radio Snackwagon.

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Speaker 1: Until next time. Goodbye,