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I started by pilfering pennies out of other children's lockers at school. Then a little pocket-picking and car-pinching.

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

You can hear this line at 00:34:24 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- I can see you know nothing about filing handcuffs.

- Hmm. I'm sure you do.

- Tell me, how did you start being a criminal?

- So you want the story of my life. It's really very interesting.

- Oh, I'm sure it is.

- I was born a poor orphan boy. From the beginning, I hadn't a chance.

- Ouch!

- I'm sorry, it slipped.

- Accidentally?

- Accidentally. Go on, please.

- I started by pilfering pennies out of other children's lockers at school. Then a little pocket-picking and car-pinching.

- And at last my efforts were rewarded, and I graduated into straight burglary.

- With diploma?

- With diploma.

- Oooh.

- I killed my first man when I was nineteen. It scared me at first, but I soon got hardened to it. Lady, you wouldn't believe me if I told you...

- It was your fault. The whole thing was your fault.

- My fault? How do you make that out?

- If you hadn'a stopped the car for those blasted sheep, we'd have had the two of 'em in the Professor's parlour right now.

[...]

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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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