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Thrillers and Crime Fiction

First broadcast: 3 December 1972

In this segment from a longer programme, a reporter asks theatregoers coming out of the 8,320th performance of The Mousetrap why they think the play has been so successful. The importance of never revealing 'whodunit' is suggested by the unexpected conclusion to his investigation.

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