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- Would you sooner try lords? I say nothing against it.
- That costs a lot, too, and it's never sure.

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

You can hear this line at 00:17:11.767 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Now, you want to be cured, or you don't want to be cured?

- Oh, but I do.

- Let me warn you at once, this will be a very long and a very costly business.

- Oh, my gracious. Why?

- Because the trouble that's been going on for 40 years can't be cured in five minutes.

- 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.

- But what's it going to cost me?

- What's a yearling calf worth now, and a pig for killing? Two of them.

- 300,000 francs.

- 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.

- Now then, here's your spinal column, in sections, very roughly, of course. This is your Turck's fascicle, and this is your Clarke's column. Can you follow me?

- Now then, when you fell off that ladder, your Turck and your Clarke slipped. Side-slipped. Like that.

- But look at them. What a position. The result is a constant and severe strain upon the multipolars.

[...]

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Dr Knock (1954) Sound Clip

Dr KnockEnjoy Robert Morley's performance in the 1954 Theatre Royal radio play of Jules Romain's 'Dr Knock', and explore standout quotes on our website.

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

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