Whitehall 1212 Radio Show!

Whitehall 1212 , named after the then famous telephone number of New Scotland Yard—the headquarters of the London Metropolitan Police Force—was written and directed by Wyllis Cooper and broadcast by NBC. It was hosted by Chief Superintendent John Davidson, curator of the Black Museum and it used many of the same cases chosen for the contemporary radio show  The Black Museum , and nearly mirrored its broadcast run. The two shows were different in the respect that while  Whitehall 1212  told the story of a case entirely from the point of view of the police starting from the crime scene,  The Black Museum  was more heavily dramatized and played out scenes of the actual murders and included scenes from the criminal's point of view.  in the weekly introduction Whitehall 1212 claimed that it 'for the first time in history Scotland Yard opens its secret files to bring you the authentic, true stories of some of its most baffling cases.' They also claimed