He turned his eyes upward to the evening sky in time to see first an infinite speck, then a black-and-white winged dream that circled the lighthouse once...

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

You can hear this line at 00:09:04 in the radio play.

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- That summer, out of his memory, he painted a picture of a slender, grime-covered child, her hair, her fair hair, blown by the November storm, who bore in her arms a wounded white bird.

- And then in mid-October, the miracle occurred...

- Rhayader was in his enclosure, feeding his birds.

- A gray northeast wind was blowing, and the land was sighing beneath the coming tide.

- Above the sea and the wind noises, he heard a high, clear note.

- He turned his eyes upward to the evening sky in time to see first an infinite speck, then a black-and-white winged dream that circled the lighthouse once...

- And finally a reality that dropped to earth in the pen, and came waddling forward, importantly, to be fed, as though she'd never been away. It was the snow goose.

- But where's she been all summer then, in Canada?

- Who knows? Perhaps...

- I think she must have summered in Greenland or Spitsbergen with the pink-feet, and she must have remembered us and returned to see us.

- Oh, good, kind princess, coming back to see us all that way.

- You see, it means that she isn't afraid of us anymore. Not even afraid of me.

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Where did she come from, did you say? -From Canada. That's a land far, far across the seas. Beautiful daughter of England.

We'll call her La Princesse Perdue, the lost princess.

Yes. Seems a long time ago, doesn't it? -A long time ago. All the way between childhood and being grown up.

Perhaps that's why the birds are leaving so early this spring. They're afraid of the planes. -Yes, they're leaving us to fend for ourselves.

She'll never go away again. The lost princess is lost no more. This is her home now, of her own free will.

The Snow Goose (1954) Sound Clip

Listen 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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