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Blimey. If that ain't the blasted limit. Missing, eh?

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

You can hear this line at 00:14:12 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Ticket to Kinreach, please.

- One, sir?

- Yes, one. Hurry, please.

- One to Kinreach, Scotland. Here you are, sir.

- Excuse me. Is this seat taken?

- Not by us, it ain't. Sit down, young fella.

- Thank you.

- I say, Jess, who won the two o'clock at Epsom?

- Here it is! Batchelor Button... odds, seven to four.

- Hello, look at this! Another woman murdered in a West End flat.

- Murdered, eh? Who was she?

- 'A well-dressed woman of about twenty-five was found with a knife in her back. The tenant, Richard Hannay, is missing.'

- Blimey. If that ain't the blasted limit. Missing, eh?

- 'The police are hot on the trail and watching with careful eyes all points of departure from London.'

- Oh, so that was what they was a-doing, eh?

- Who?

- Scotland Yard.

- Two plain clothes bobbies. I seen 'em get on this train. Asking plenty of questions they was, too.

- Look here. Here's a picture of that Hannay chap. Let's have a squint at it.

- Rum looking lot, ain't he?

[...]

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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