We have all seen those old black and white detective films-film noir - 'dark film'.You know the type-a world weary detective,a 'broad' with a heart of gold,whose man has 'done her wrong'somewhere along the way and the
Here at the Radio Poplar Sound Archive we have amongst the recordings the radio versions of the above- with the likes of Philip Marlowe,Sam Spade and going back to the pale yellow gaslight and fog of Victorian London-Sherlock Holmes.
If you are a fan of this type of radio,then keep checking this blog as we run such series from time to time.
I shook the rain from my hat and walked into the room.
ReplyDelete"In there."
The words hit me hard. In there was my best friend lying on the floor dead. The body. Now I could call it that. Yesterday it was Jack Williams, the guy that shared the same mud bed with me through two years of warfare in the stinking slime of the jungle. Jack, the guy who said he'd give his right arm for a friend and did when he stopped a b****** of a Jap from slitting me in two. He caught the bayonet in the biceps and they amputated his arm.