Lights out everybody.

This is Arch Obler bringing you another in our series of stories of the unusual.

And once again we caution you, these lights out stories are definitely not for the timid soul.

So we tell you calmly and very sincerely, if you frighten easily, turn off your radio now.

Welcome to the series of radio dramas,

dedicated to the production,

the unusual, and the unknown.

Come to be, my friends. We don't send the world to the unknown and and the unknown. Come with me, my friends.

We shall descend the world of the unknown and forbidden.

Down the depth with the veil of time as soon as this production will reign to the game.

Another journey into the realm of the strange and terrifying.

I hope you will enjoy the trip, that it will thrill you a little and chill you a little.

So settle back. Get a good grip on your nerves.

Where are we going? You'll find out when we get there all right folks well welcome back to the

podcast so glad to have you with me this is your Dakota, and I've got one for you today from suspense called the Brighton Strangler. And this was adapted from the film from RKO of the same name, and that was released in 1945.

This play was produced and directed by William Spear and John Loder and June Dupre are the main stars.

So real quick, let's hit on these two, and then we'll get right into it.

Mr. John Loder was the son of a British general.

He first served in Gallipoli in World War I

and was also a German prisoner of war at one point.

Upon his release, he actually stayed there in order to run a pickle factory.

And through that, an interest in acting developed during this time,

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