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Speaker 1: Season six, episode twenty two to Mourn Names, Part three

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Speaker 1: of three, with the discovery of the small slip of

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Speaker 1: paper bearing the enigmatic words tamam should by pathologist Professor

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Speaker 1: John clelland Detective Lionel Lean's team down at the Adelaide

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Speaker 1: Detective's Office finally have a serious clue to get their

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Speaker 1: teeth into. Sadly, nobody, however, has the faintest idea what

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Speaker 1: it means. Weeks go by as they try in vain

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Speaker 1: to uncover the meaning of the words, until one afternoon

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Speaker 1: Frank Kennedy, a journalist at the Adelaide Advertiser, gets wind

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Speaker 1: of the strange discovery and has an instant jolt of recognition.

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Speaker 1: He races to the phone and calls Detective Len Brown

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Speaker 1: to let him know where he's seen the phrase before.

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Speaker 1: In a volume of poetry, The Rubayat of Omar Khayam,

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Speaker 1: the Rubayat is a series of quatrains attributed to Omar Khayam,

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Speaker 1: a mathematician and astronomer who lived in Persia in the

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Speaker 1: eleventh and twelfth century CE, which were loosely compiled and

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Speaker 1: translated by the poet Edward Fitzgerald. First published in eighteen

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Speaker 1: fifty nine, the book initially failed to sell until a

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Speaker 1: fashion for Orientalism in the English speaking world saw its

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Speaker 1: popularity increase markedly. The Rubayat became even more popular during

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Speaker 1: He runs his fingers across the spines in the poetry

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Speaker 1: to discover right there, staring back at him in bold type,

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Speaker 1: the words tamam should Holding the page up to the light,

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Speaker 1: he pulls out the torn piece of paper from his

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Speaker 1: It's a perfect match. Later, after consulting with the librarian,

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Speaker 1: to finally lay him to rest. Local taxidermist Paul Lawson

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Speaker 1: On the morning of June fourteenth, nineteen forty nine, the

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Speaker 1: i Am, it says on the front Rowland flicks immediately

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Speaker 1: looks like a foreign language, suggests one of the officers. No,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't, says another. It looks like a code. The numbers,

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Speaker 1: at least are more easily deciphered. One is discovered to

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Speaker 1: belong to a bank, but the second is found to

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Speaker 1: next to where Rowland Francis kept its car. A short

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Speaker 1: time later, Detective Errol Caney, who'd been tasked with tracing

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Speaker 1: body had been found the previous year. On that bright

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Speaker 1: December morning of nineteen forty eight, Caney can barely contain

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Speaker 1: on Caney as he introduces himself, before he suggests politely

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Speaker 1: who introduces herself as Jessica Thompson, is completely dumbfounded as

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Speaker 1: completing her training in Sydney and lived alone with her husband, Prestige,

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Speaker 1: Kaney asks again if she can't think of anything that

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Speaker 1: something occurs to her. There was a soldier a few

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Speaker 1: years back, she says, whom she'd met a couple of

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Speaker 1: she was a trainee in Sydney. She'd given him a

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Speaker 1: The man's name, she says, was Alfred Boxall, and she

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Speaker 1: also gives an address whether police might find him. Kainey

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Speaker 1: other names. She replied, yes, people often used to call

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Speaker 1: me Jestin. Back at Anger Street, Detective Lean asks all

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Speaker 1: Linked to the Rubaiyat and Jessica's rejection of him, Lean

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Speaker 1: suicide after all. On the afternoon of July twenty sixth,

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Speaker 1: For a moment, Lean is certain he discerns a glimmer

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