If you're a weakly child, you die in the first six months, before the doctor has time to do much for you. If you survive the first six months, well, you take a lot of killing.

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

You can hear this line at 00:03:07.513 in the radio play.

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- Not another doctor near.

- A chemist who sticks to his job.

- And a town you can't spend money in if you try.

- No costly amusement.

- Why, in six months' time, you'll have saved what the practice has cost you twice over.

- The air here is very bracing, you can feel it.

- If you're a weakly child, you die in the first six months, before the doctor has time to do much for you. If you survive the first six months, well, you take a lot of killing.

- Apoplexies, bad hearts, oh yes, people who are certain there's nothing the matter with them just fall down dead when they're fifty.

- But you've not made your fortune by writing death certificates.

- Ha, ha, ha, no, of course not.

- Well, there's always influenza. Not the common influenza, of course, but they rather like a touch of that now and again. They think a good septic cold once a year keeps them from catching all sorts of other things.

- No, I mean the big, worldwide epidemics.

- But if I have to wait for a worldwide epidemic...

- I've seen two. One in 1889 and the last one in 1918.

- You did fairly well out of them?

- Michaelmas 1919. And the books look very well indeed.

- Michaelmas 1919?

- Yes, you see the people here only pay their bills every Michaelmas, every 29th of September.

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Actors: Robert Morley (Dr Knock), Sir Ralph Richardson (Host)

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