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The Noble Experiment

on BBC Radio 4 FM

or The sad story of Prohibition written by KEITH DARVILL Narrator Al Mancini
Liquor to be used as a beverage must not be manufactured; nor sold, nor given away nor hauled in anything on the surface of the earth or under the earth or in the air
(KRAMER COMMISSION)
In 1917 the American Constitution was amended and Prohibition written in. Sixteen years later it was written out. ' The noble experiment,' as J. Edgar Hoover termed it, had been seen to have failed miserably. The word ' Prohibition ' itself came to stand for a bloody era of gang warfare, bootlegging, political graft. The Depression and the new mood of moral and social seriousness put paid to one of the most lawless periods in American history. with the voices of JOHN BAY
DON FELLOWS. ROY STEPHENS PHIL BROWN , ANN MURRAY HELEN HORTON , JON CROFT Producer MAURICE LEITCH
When 21 'was a speakeasy: p4

Contributors

Written By:
Keith Darvill
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J. Edgar
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John Bay
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Roy Stephens
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Phil Brown
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Ann Murray
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Helen Horton
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Jon Croft
Producer:
Maurice Leitch

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