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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.

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

You can hear this line at 00:34:55 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- 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.

- We'd better have 'em there soon is what I say.

- The Professor was anxious about Hannay. 'Knows too much,' he says. 'Get him.'

- Get him? We had him. And the girl, too.

- You dinna suppose they'd head in somewhere, do you? Stop at a tavern, I mean.

- Hmm. They might, in this weather.

- There's a place about four miles back. King's Head Tavern it's called.

[...]

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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