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December 25, 2015 By Dramatic Listening Leave a Comment

DL057: Intimidated Jury–Somebody’s Stooge

Mr. District Attorney and the Intimidated Jury, (Scene 6): Just the stooge: The District Attorney and his secretary are talking about the case and they are quite satisfied that they have enough evidence to convict Mr. Taylor of jury tampering. It looks like Mrs. Clark was right. The jurors had been manipulated into voting ‘not […]

December 18, 2015 By Dramatic Listening Leave a Comment

DL056: Intimidated Jury–A Jostled Kingpin

Mr. District Attorney and the Intimidated Jury, (Scene 5): Everything to lose: The District Attorney has just informed Mr Taylor that a member of the jury, Mrs Clark, had charged him with swaying the jury into voting “not guilty”. He’s been warned. He could end up on trial. He could end up doing time in prison. By ‘doing time’, […]

December 11, 2015 By Dramatic Listening 2 Comments

DL055: Intimidated Jury — Taking Offense

Mr. District Attorney and the Intimidated Jury, (Scene 4) Taking offense: Harrington has rounded up the accused jury foreman, Mr Taylor, and brought him back to the DA’s office. When Taylor hears the charge against him, he takes offense. “Ridiculous! That’s libelous!” he cries, but it is all a pretense. Deep down inside, he knows he […]

December 4, 2015 By Dramatic Listening Leave a Comment

DL054: Intimidated Jury — Gangster Etiquette

Mr. District Attorney and the Intimidated Jury, (Scene 3) [Photo © VadimGuzhva/Bigstock.com]STANLEY: I wanna thank you, Mr. Butler.BUTLER: For what?STANLEY: For the fix.BUTLER: You mean the verdict? Gangster Etiquette In this episode, we see into the gangsters’ world. Now, when you’re being tried for murder, being faced with the electric chair, and someone gets you […]

November 27, 2015 By Dramatic Listening Leave a Comment

DL053: Intimidated Jury 2-The Informant

Mr. District Attorney: Intimidated Jury, (Scene 2) It’s not your fault: Harrington saw that the morning paper had an article about the Stanley trial. The paper supports the D.A. The article criticized the jury for reaching such a ridiculous verdict. Well, it’s good to know you have the public’s support, but it doesn’t change the situation. The Informant: […]

November 20, 2015 By Dramatic Listening Leave a Comment

DL052: Intimidated Jury 1- Reasonable Doubt

Mr District Attorney — Intimidated Jury, Scene 1: A Reasonable Doubt The Jury is Still Out As our story opens, we find a crime has already been committed. We are in a courtroom waiting for the jury to return with their verdict. Will they find Mr Stanley guilty or not guilty of murder? The District […]

November 13, 2015 By Wendy Lambert Leave a Comment

DL051: MrDA — Intimidated Jury (Intro)

The Old Time Radio Legal Thriller: Mr. District Attorney was a popular radio program on NBC and ABC radio stations from 1939 to 1952. Each episode is a legal story that centers on the court trial. Meet the Jury: When a serious crime has been committed, such as murder, the American legal system chooses a group […]

October 30, 2015 By Dramatic Listening Leave a Comment

DL050: Archie – Bankrupt 6 — Put out the fire

What have I done! Archie is shocked when he realizes what he’s done. There’s his dad telling him he’s not broke, yet Archie had heard him worrying over how to make money — he’d heard him with his own ears! Archie’s mom pulls the two strands of the story together and finally everyone realizes […]

October 16, 2015 By Dramatic Listening Leave a Comment

DL049: Archie – Bankrupt 5 — Things fall apart

At a Time Like This Fred arrives back home with the party food. Of course, he has quite a story to tell his wife… and she has a new turn of events to tell him about, too. From this point on, a series of events take place that tell Fred and Mary something is wrong. […]

October 2, 2015 By Dramatic Listening Leave a Comment

DL048: Archie – Bankrupt 4: Connections

The Unwitting Charity Case When Fred hurries down to the corner store for party snacks, he experiences what it is like to be a charity case (「仁愛案件」，貧寒人家) – someone you do a favor for out of pity. But he doesn’t really know what’s going on. Mr. Pringle, the shop owner offers him credit at his store, something […]

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