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Today is our 4,250th episode special.

Now you recall a few weeks back that a listener sent me an email and asked me how I found the programs that I used for the podcast and I decided it would be interesting to play something that kind of came about as a result of digging through the internet.

In this case, this is from a program I found at the Internet Archive while going through something like a hundred different

post containing Australian old-time radio programs.

And today we're going to bring you an episode of an Australian Crime Anthology Program.

Now, there were a variety of Australian Crime Anthology shows.

Now, some might have been similar to U.S. programs which often told

imaginative recreations of the activities of criminals and what I mean by imaginative creations is that you will have

crime stories that were dramatized for radio and all of the criminals died before any one of them could talk to the police.

Yet the radio program will write dialogue and write things in detail on how these criminals were, what their personalities were,

and how they related to each other.

But that's what I mean by imaginative recreations.

That's not what we're getting today.

Because other anthology programs would kind of mix things up

as to whose perspective they were looking at a case from

and what type of story they were telling.

And that brought me to Police File.

Police File was a series that focused on the work

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