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The Black Museum - Champagne Glass

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Inspector Charles confronts Colonel Reed about the unwashed champagne glass, a sentimental memento with suspicious sediment at the bottom.
Orson Welles narrates a classic radio drama about a champagne glass in Scotland Yard's Black Museum, which tells the story of Colonel Harry Reed, who uses arsenic to poison his wife and attempt to kill his business associate. Scotland Yard detectives investigate the suspicious deaths, uncovering the colonel's methodical murder plot.

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A polished murder tale where a champagne glass and a box of candy turn elegance into poison and judgment.

A champagne glass anchors the Black Museum opening, and the episode keeps returning to the idea of ordinary objects made dangerous. Orson Welles presents the museum as a grim gallery of death, then the story tightens around Colonel Reed, John Davis, and a box of candy that…

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