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And when she sailed back to England, Rhayader waved from his little sailboat, and the snow goose flew circling overhead.

11 seconds sound clip from the The Snow Goose (1954) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:22:37 in the radio play.

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[...]

- Come on, lads. In you get. Don't mind getting your feet wet.

- Mind your heads when I swing around. In fact, keep down in the bottom of the boat, all of you.

- Blimy, look at that ruddy goose flying round and round.

- Told you it was a good omen. It's a blinking angel of mercy. That's what it is.

- When he had brought his boatload out to the Kentish Maid, Rhayader sailed back to the shore for seven more survivors, and all that day he sailed back and forth.

- A motorboat from the Thames Yacht Club had come to help in the job, and then a lifeboat from Poole, until the Kentish Maid had 700 souls aboard her.

- And when she sailed back to England, Rhayader waved from his little sailboat, and the snow goose flew circling overhead.

- It was four days later that a Limehouse tug was sailing back across the channel, towing four barges full of the last survivors from Dunkirk Beach.

- Can you make out what she is? Seems to be a dead man lashed with a mast, sir.

- We'll stop. He may only be wounded.

- What's that bird on a rail for heaven's sake?

- Looks like a goose.

- It is, sir.

- The goose has been flying over the beaches during all the evacuation. It becomes a sort of legend among the men. Some of those I brought back yesterday in the toilet had seen it.

- They said if you saw the flying wild goose you'd be saved. It's a sort of good luck omen.

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The Snow Goose (1954) Sound Clip

Laurence Olivier 1970s portraitListen to Laurence Olivier bring the characters of Paul Gallico's story 'The Snow Goose' to life in this rare 1954 Theatre Royal radio play, featuring sound clips on our page.

Actors: Laurence Olivier (Narrator / Philip Rhayader)

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