Secrets Of Scotland Yard and The Black Museum

Case Closed! (old time radio)

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🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This week's hour of crime begins with Mightier Than The Sword, from The Secrets Of Scotland Yard. That episode aired sometime in the 1950's (26:07) That's followed by The Black Museum with its episode from January 15, 1952, A Tan Shoe. https://traffic.libsyn.com/forcedn/e55e1c7a-e213-4a20-8701-21862bdf1f8a/CaseClosed962.mp3 Download CaseClosed962 | Subscribe | Spotify | Support Case Closed Your donation of any amount keeps Case [...]

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0:00.0	This is Case Closed Crime Stories from the Golden Age of Radio every Wednesday at Relicradio.com.
0:06.4	Our first story comes from Secrets of Scotland Yard.
0:09.0	We'll hear mightier than the sword aired sometime in the 1950s.
0:13.4	That's followed up by the Black Museum with a tan shoe, their episode from January 15th, 1952.
1:30.7	Music Shoe, their episode from January 15th, 1952. The The How do you book?
1:31.6	This is Tive Brook.
1:33.5	I've called today's program,
1:35.2	Mightier than the sword.
1:37.2	The pen is mightier than the sword,
1:38.4	or so the saying goes.
1:41.5	The pen to which I'm referring is the forger's pen.
1:44.8	However, when the sword concerned is the sword of Damocles,
1:47.2	then, as many of the inmates of his majesty's prisons will agree,
1:49.2	the sword is mightier than the pen.
1:51.9	So be it.
1:53.5	Let us start our programme
1:54.5	by visiting a place
1:55.5	which has provided this in the past
1:57.0	with a source of inspiration.
1:59.1	I refer to that sinister but fascinating place, the Black Museum of Scotland Yard.
2:14.4	With the ever-increasing amount of scientific aid, which is provided for our modern police force,
2:19.9	the art of forging has, I'm happy to say, fallen into decline.
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