Dramatic Listening... The Podcast Where You Learn English By Listening To Radio Plays

  Photo by Brian Harrington Spier [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia CommonsAMAH SERRIBI: I have been privileged. Ah, you are perhaps interested in a fine Bocara rug, at great sacrifice price.BARRIE CRAIG: Mr. Serribi, please! Let go of my coat lapels! Barrie Craig Helps a Fellow Private Eye Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator is a hard-boiled detective radio play that aired from 1951-1955. This play is called "Blood Money" which is money gained at the expense of someone else. One man gets the money easily, but it costs another man, perhaps in terms of his human rights, his freedom, or his life. I have broken the play into several parts. Part 1 is both scene 1 and 2. In Scene 1, Barrie Craig is asked to do a job to help out an older detective, Max Marcy. He needs to find a man called Anatol Barbar. They discuss the older man's financial situation and why he can't really retire. Max doesn't have much money saved up to retire on. They both agree that they barely make enough to live on. And yet, it is a tough j