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Doctor Prescribes Death

The Whistler · June 11, 1944 · 29 min · 4,179 words

The transcript of “Doctor Prescribes Death”, an episode of The Whistler first broadcast June 11, 1944. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Whistler plays The Whistler free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Good evening, this is Peter Lorry. Welcome to another performance dedicated to the shaded side of life. The mysterious, the criminals, the oftentimes murderous side of life. Oh please understand that this is not that life can be beautiful or love thy neighbor.

Oh no no. You know my friends, this is the Mystery Playhouse. An unexplainable source of mystery, then a human mind shall be turned sometimes. In everything confusion and often becomes the victim of a brain, an horrible obsession, there has no relationship to the life surrounding it, but one that is very real to him, who is

I know many things, for I walk by night. I know many strange tales, many secrets hidden in the hearts of men and women, who have stepped into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors of which I dare not speak. Professor Arthur Rugby had a series. Professor Rugby is a psychologist, and it is his series. I contend that a person who had decided to

They kill himself and very easily be turned from this desire, the desire of taking life of another. I conclude, my theory, that's necessary. That is what I will do. Do you agree? Do you believe that if you were about to commit suicide, you could be swayed from your purpose and become a murderer?

Professor Red's thinking so. But he desperately discreetly discreetment to his publisher, Mr. Hellman. Hellman glances at the manuscript and smiles. The professor leans forward and asks, well, Hellman, what do you think? It's purely conjecture, simply a theory, and I wouldn't advise publishing it, but I've worked on it for a long time and it will work.

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