The Black Museum - The Pink Powder Puff (1952) INTRO: The Royalettes "It’s Gonna Take A Miracle" - (1965 MGM)

The Black Museum - The Pink Powder Puff (1952) *The Exact Date Is Unknown.
INTRO: The Royalettes "It’s Gonna Take A Miracle" - (1965 MGM)

Noted Crime Reporter Percy Hoskins of London's Daily Express was integral to the development of both Whitehall 1212 and Secrets of Scotland Yard. To that end, it's worth noting that the more dramatic, morbid, or salacious elements of The Black Museum's presentations aren't nearly as exacting in detail or as precise in background as those of Secrets of Scotland Yard and Whitehall 1212. Nor, one might well argue, should they have been. By the time that The Black Museum aired, both Whitehall 1212 and Secrets of Scotland Yard had broadcast virtually all of the crimes behind The Black Museum's scripts. They didn't so much steal The Black Museum's thunder as much as virtually demand that The Black Museum take a run at those same historic crimes from an entirely different angle. And in many cases, that's precisely what The Black Museum's writer, Ira Marion did.

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1952. Program #12. Syndicated, WRVR-FM, New York aircheck. "The Pink Powder Puff". The life story of a rogue and murderer, who tells of his criminal history while waiting to be hanged. The date is approximate. Syndicated rebroadcast date: December 4, 1974. Orson Welles (narrator), Harry Alan Towers (producer), Ira Marion (writer), Sidney Torch (composer, conductor). 29:25. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.