Radio review – BP#47 – “Detective Story” (1953) ***

Tough, downbeat version of the Sidney Kingsley play with Wendell Corey as the self-righteous cop who beats prisoners and is keen to get stuck into an abortionist doctor, only to find out his wife had an abortion. The fore-runner of all those New York cop shows; Kingsley apparently spent a year researching this which seems an awful long time, with so much time spent on the abortion plot, but it feels real and is still gripping. You do lose something it being on radio and not being able to see the details of the station.