7 seconds sound clip from the Dr Knock (Theatre Royal 1954) classic radio drama series episode.
You can hear this line at 00:21:01.134 in the radio play.
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- Your cerebral arteries, madame, that is, the arteries that feed the brain, it is possible may be as hard and as brittle as pipe stems.
- Oh, pipe stems.
- A common comparison.
- Oh, good heavens. Would smoking bring that on? I do smoke a little, you know.
- We may have to take that into account.
- Then again, insomnia may come from a constant sapping of the grey matter of the brain by nerves which are diseased.
- Oh, how dreadful. Oh, can you explain that, doctor?
- But of course.
- Try and picture to yourself a sort of crab, or a kind of octopus, or a very large spider which nibbles at you and sucks at you and little by little drains away the whole of the inside of your head.
- Oh, oh, oh, how terrible. Oh, that's what the matter. Oh, I knew it.
- Oh, doctor, I'd rather die at once. Oh, I'd rather you killed me.
- Oh, oh, I'm going to faint. The pain, the pain's coming on. Oh, hadn't you better give me a little morphine? I can't face it. I simply can't face it.
- I'd sooner be told straight out. I must know. I must know. Is it absolutely fatal?
- No.
- Can it be cured?
- In time.
- You're not deceiving me. I'd rather know the worst. I'll be brave.
- If you're ready to go through with the treatment, madam, steadily and patiently, but I warn you, it's going to cost a lot of money.
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