Ep.55 Secrets of Scotland Yard: The Bank of England Robbery

Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Stevie K.

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

4.8 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The Secrets of Scotland Yard was a successful crime drama series, initially airing internationally between 1949 and 1951. Selected episodes finally came to a US radio network for a brief run much later in 1957 over the Mutual Broadcasting System. The series boasted well over 100 episodes. The Secrets of Scotland Yard was an independent production of the Towers of London syndicate in England for world wide distribution. Each week, an audience of anxious radio-listeners tuned in to hear t...

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to another episode of nostalgic mystery radio. I'm your host Stevie K. It's my
0:24.1	honor to bring you the radio shows of yesteryear. For today's episode, I bring you Secrets of Scotland Yard,
0:31.3	episode titled The Bank of England robbery. Original air date October 5th, 1953, where the manager of the Bank of England reaches
0:41.3	out to Scotland Yard to help catch two notorious counterfeiters. So sit back and relax, and I hope
0:49.6	you enjoy this Institute of Mystery Radio. Thank you for listening. Thank you for listening. In the Secrets of Scotland Yard.
1:13.9	How do you do?
1:16.9	Is there such a thing as the perfect crime?
1:19.8	If so, it's no place in this program.
1:24.6	We're concerned with the majority of crimes, the imperfect ones.
1:29.8	And yet, every so often, there comes a crime so very near to perfection that the criminals themselves must have believed at one stage of the game
1:33.8	that they would really get away with it.
1:36.2	And yet, invariably, they were wrong.
1:39.3	Such is our case today.
1:41.3	A classic in the annals of the tricksters.
1:44.2	You've heard the expression say for the
1:46.0	Bank of England. For more
1:47.9	a century, that expression has signified
1:50.2	the stability of a great British
1:51.8	institution. Stability,
1:54.2	yes, but invulnerable,
1:56.6	my wonder.
1:58.0	The title of this program is
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