- Forty years?
- Ever since you fell off that ladder. It must have been quite a big ladder, placed against a wall, and you fell backwards. Plump. That's where it caught you. On the left one, luckily.
14 seconds sound clip from the Dr Knock (Theatre Royal 1954) classic radio drama series episode.
You can hear this line at 00:16:46.002 in the radio play.
Quote context
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- Did you ever fall off a ladder when you were young?
- Ever feel a pain here at night when you're getting into bed? A sort of cramp?
- Of course, you realise what's wrong with you.
- No.
- That's just as well, perhaps.
- Now, you want to be cured, or you don't want to be cured?
- Let me warn you at once, this will be a very long and a very costly business.
- Because the trouble that's been going on for 40 years can't be cured in five minutes.
- But what's it going to cost me?
- What's a yearling calf worth now, and a pig for killing? Two of them.
- Oh, what a thing to happen to me.
- Would you sooner try lords? I say nothing against it.
- That costs a lot, too, and it's never sure.
- How can I have got all that, the matter, with me?
- I can show you in a moment on the blackboard.
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