Ep.111 The Crime Club: The Sun is a Witness

Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Stevie K.

Detective, Fiction, Crime, Arts, Radio Show, Mystery, Tv & Film, Performing Arts, Drama, Old Time Radio

4.8 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The Crime Club aired on the Mutual Broadcasting System as a half-hour weekly radio series, beginning on December 2, 1946 and continuing until October 16, 1947, a run of 47 episodes. It aired on Mondays at 8 p.m. through December and then on Thursdays at 10 p.m. It was also heard on Wednesdays and Sundays on some stations. Each installment was introduced by the series host, The Librarian, portrayed by Barry Thomson and Raymond Edward Johnson (who was perhaps better known as the host of Inner ...

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of nostalgic mystery radio.
0:22.1	I'm your host Stevie Kay, and it's my honors bring you the radio shows of yesteryear.
0:27.0	For this episode, I bring you, The Crime Club, episode title, The Sun is a Witness,
0:32.9	originally aired April 3, 1947, where the shadows on a roll of film provide clues to a murderer.
0:41.0	So sit back and relax, and I hope you enjoy this nostalgic mystery radio.
0:46.7	Thank you for listening. Hello. Hello. I hope I haven't kept you waiting.
1:08.6	Yes, this is the crime club.
1:11.7	I'm the librarian.
1:14.9	The sun is a witness.
1:17.7	Yes, we have that crime club story for you.
1:21.1	Come right over.
1:27.1	Music Oh, you're here.
1:38.8	Good.
1:40.3	Take the easy chair by the window.
2:02.5	Comfortable? The book is on this shelf. Here it is. The sun is a witness by Aaron Mark Stein. The very unusual story of a design for killing that couldn't succeed without murder.
2:05.7	Let's look at it under the reading lamp.
2:11.9	It was Tim Mulligan's job as an archaeologist to find out about dead civilizations,
2:22.2	and he was finding out about the Anatsazi, the Indian cliff-dwellers who inhabited the great canyon walls of the southwest many centuries ago.
2:32.8	It was late morning, June 22nd, the second day of summer, and Tim Mulligan was digging carefully in one of the caves high above the canyon floor.
2:37.8	When George Dillon, the owner of the property, and Tim's manufacturer,
2:41.7	climbed slowly up from the camp cave 30 feet below,
2:44.4	he stopped to catch his breath.
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