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A Little Matter of Memory

Suspense · September 30, 1954 · 25 min · 3,167 words

The transcript of “A Little Matter of Memory”, an episode of Suspense first broadcast September 30, 1954. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Suspense plays Suspense free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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And now, tonight's presentation of Radio's Outstanding Theatre of Frills, a Spence. Tonight, the story of a pleasant young Englishman and his wife, who encounter a murderer and a parcum. They can't tell which is which, not for the light of them.

So now with Lawrence Dobkin as Edward and Paula Windlull is John. Here is tonight's Spence Play, a little matter of memory. From observation on Be Hard by Edward Mantua. I am recording the events of the past several hours in the hope that my observations may in some measure be of assistance to those who must treat that violent, that deranged, that

homicidal, psychotic, which is burnington hard. My contact with the case began at five o'clock this afternoon, but first I feel I ought to explained the presence of my wife and self and his desolate and remote corner of the moor.

On August 1st I suffered a stroke which resulted in the partial paralysis of my left side. For my convalescence we came to this place. A tiny cottage high on the moor that's near Buckler. These moor's have been to me the revelation and delight.

Or rather worse so until five o'clock of this afternoon. We've been off on a tram and we're just returning to the cottage. Oh, but darling, whatever on earth will you do with all those flowers?

Oh, I don't know. Dry them or something, I suppose. There's a talk on the wire that's something about hanging them upside down. They'll be forever that way. Oh, oh, here, hold on. When you want to get the laugh?

Yes, I've got them. Although, if you're trying to want flowers hanging about upside down, beat me right side up the way they're holding temperatures. Oh, this. Oh, someone's left us a note. Two nodes What is it?

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