R.D. Wingfield Letter of the Law

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' I'm sorry, Superintendent. Nobody can say I'm a fussy man, but I'm not having himI just don’ want to be involved with his sort of trash. They should have kicked him out of the force.'
PC Kendrick:………..John Samson
Det-Sgt Shaw:……….Clifford Norgate
Det-Insp Nash:………Malcolm Hayes
Det-Supt Wiltshire:………..Victor Lucas
Det-Insp Johnson:………..Douglas Blackwell
Joan Shaw:……….Dorit Welles
Sammy Merton:………Sean Arnold
Police-dog Handler:………..Roger Gale

Produced by David :H Godfrey
Afternoon Theatre Letter of the Law
Wed 28th Apr 1971, 15:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM

If you say that someone keeps to the letter of the law, you mean that they act according to what is actually written in the law, rather than according to the general principles of it, especially when you disapprove of this.