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And that's probably the finest, thinnest and most fragile thing I can think of for the moment.

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

You can hear this line at 00:41:19 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- It would appear to me that spying is one activity which provides little or no room for modernization.

- Along with qualifications, I presume that methods have changed little since the days of Moses.

- That's very true. They remain essentially unchanged.

- But there have been radical technical changes in carrying out those essentials.

- For instance, there's a machine, recently developed in this country, so delicate and so accurate that it can etch an invisible secret message on a surface no larger than a grain of corn.

- Or, to employ a commodity with which, perhaps, you're more familiar it could etch the map of an entire country on a single Lux flake.

- And that's probably the finest, thinnest and most fragile thing I can think of for the moment.

- I know that you can read through a flake of Lux, Major. It's actually only two one-thousandths of an inch thick.

- I see. Almost as amazing as this machine I'm speaking of.

- Lux Flakes remind me of women.

- And women, in turn, recall an amazing spy story I encountered during the World War.

- It concerns a Swiss opera singer who volunteered in the French Red Cross as an entertainer.

[...]

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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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