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A bomb-throwing incident in 1905 sets off a train of events which ends in a murder and a suicide. | dG1fcEk1LU1JX3pKZjQ
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00:00This Wednesday, drama is set in Edwardian London.
00:11Mr Verloc, ostensibly the owner of a backstreet shop,
00:15is in fact employed by an Eastern European embassy.
00:17You give yourself for an agent provocateur.
00:20The proper business of an agent of your sort is to provoke.
00:23I've several times prevented.
00:24We don't want prevention, we want a cure.
00:26Well, what I have in mind is a series of anarchistic outrages here...
00:32Sit down.
00:33Here in England.
00:34I see.
00:36These outrages need not be sanguinary,
00:38but they must be really startling.
00:42Here it is.
00:43Not much so far.
00:47Bomb in Greenwich Park.
00:49Foggy morning.
00:50Explosion.
00:52Filt as far as Romney Road and Park Place.
00:54Enormous hole in the ground.
00:56I do assure you that V in London had no knowledge of anything being arranged.
01:04Couldn't you describe the person you last gave the stuff to?
01:08Describe him?
01:10I don't think there can be the slightest objection to that now.
01:14I can describe him to you in one word.
01:16Verloc.
01:17The Secret Agent.
01:18This Wednesday at 9.40 here on 2.
01:25Now on 2, we journey with Kenneth Clark in search of civilization in the beginning.
01:31Doom 4.
01:31Doom 4.
01:32Doom 4.
01:41Doom 4.
01:42Stockholm.
01:43winding.
01:44I don't know.
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