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A professor? Yes. Yes, that's it. I can try it anyhow.

7 seconds sound clip from the The 39 Steps (1937) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:20:47 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- I'm looking for work. Do you suppose I could find something?

- Mmm, I hae me doubts, laddie.

- Kinreach is a mighty small town.

- What do ye do?

- I'm a chauffeur.

- Well, I'm thinking you'd better try somewhere else then. What folks as need chauffeurs in here has had them for years.

- Oh, I see. But, aren't there any newcomers? I mean, somebody told me about...

- Aye, now wait a minute. Aye, come to think of it, I did hear something. About a retired professor moving into the big house on the edge of the moor.

- A professor? Yes. Yes, that's it. I can try it anyhow.

- Yes, sir?

- I'd like to see the master, please.

- What name shall I say?

- Oh, he doesn't know my name. But you might ask him if he knows - Annabella Smith.

- Yes, sir. Would you mind waiting in the...?

- Is that someone for me, George?

- Oh... Yes, Professor.

- How do you do?

[...]

The 39 Steps (1937) Sound Clip

The 39 StepsQuotes with sound clips from the old-time radio play "The 39 Steps" (1937), based on John Buchan's novel, first aired on December 13, 1937 on CBS's Lux Radio Theatre.

Actors: Robert Montgomery (Richard Hannay), Ida Lupino (Pamela Stuart), Isabel Jewel (Annabella Smith), Gene Lockhart (Mr. Memory), Leonard Mudie (Professor Bartlett),

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