Broadcast: 1952

Starring: Orson Welles

Added: Oct 10 2003

Here we are in the Black Museum, Scotland Yard’s museum of murder. Yes here lies death so orderly, so well kept. Row and row a macabre record of the violence of many generations, each object in its place each marked, tagged and carded with name and place of date. Each object in this room enjoyed in its life one supreme moment when the eyes of the world were upon it and it played its silent part in a case of murder. The 32-calibre bullet, this object was made for killing, but as a matter of fact it never did kill. That’s the story, it began on a London street, a dark sedan drove into the stream of traffic…