- I bought oil shares, doctor. What do you think of oil?
- One of the most useful of minerals. As an investment, speculative rather. Apt to rise a little and then fall a lot, for no very apparent reason.

— Dr Knock (Robert Morley)

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13 seconds sound clip from the Dr Knock (Theatre Royal 1954) classic radio drama series episode.

You can hear this line at 00:18:34.301 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Oh, when a madame Pons, that is a mademoiselle Lempoumas that was, comes with all the rest for free treatment, it is rather astonishing, isn't it?

- But the greater the compliment, madame, and I am conscious of it.

- Our family, of course, goes back to the 13th century.

- But I won't pretend that my income's what it was. Only last year I had to sell a 300 acre estate of ours, la Michouille.

- I still wonder whether I did right.

- It depends what you invested the money in, madame.

- I bought oil shares, doctor. What do you think of oil?

- One of the most useful of minerals. As an investment, speculative rather. Apt to rise a little and then fall a lot, for no very apparent reason.

- Oh, it'll make me go cold all over. Oh, you don't know what the worry, the managing of a few little pennies is to me.

- But you're wondering perhaps what I've come for, lining up with all my tenants for a free visit.

- Whatever your reasons, madame, I know they were good ones.

- It's just that I've heard such good reports of the perfectly splendid work you've been doing since you came into the district.

- And I thought to myself, I know what the people round here are. They'll none of them go near him. And that's all the thanks he'll get.

[...]

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Dr Knock (1954) Sound Clip

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