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- Don't you want her to feel free? Free to go where she wants to be? Free to do what she wants to do? We don't want to make the princess a prisoner, do we?
- No.
- No.

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

You can hear this line at 00:07:23 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- It had been limping about the enclosure with the wild pink-footed geese by Christmas time.

- And now that it was June again, it would fly away.

- Yes. Very soon we shall see the last of our princess. Aren't you sorry?

- Aye.

- Must she go then?

- Yes. Her instinct will call her back to Canada now that the summer has come again. That is, if she can never fly back to Canada when she leaves here.

- Couldn't we stop her flying away?

- Oh, yes, we could. But you wouldn't want us to do that, would you?

- Don't you want her to feel free? Free to go where she wants to be? Free to do what she wants to do? We don't want to make the princess a prisoner, do we?

- No.

- No.

- Now look at these pink feet there. They're so fat and well-fed, they've got quite lazy.

- All their friends have migrated north weeks ago.

- Go on! Go on off with you! Off to the north! Go on off to the north! Off to your friends!

- Oh, look, they're going! Just like you told them to.

- Look. Look, the princess, she's going with them. She's flying away.

[...]

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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