The marsh is desolate, utterly lonely, and made lonelier by the calls and cries of the wild fowl that make their homes in the saltings.

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

You can hear this line at 00:01:30 in the radio play.

Quote context

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- It's of the Second World War, and I think it may already be familiar to you.

- I myself shall play the part of Philip Rhayader, and tell you Paul Gallico's story, The Snow Goose.

- The Great Marsh lies on the Essex coast between the village of Chelmbury and the ancient Saxon oyster fishing hamlet of Wickaeldroth.

- It is one of the last of the wild places of England.

- A low, far-reaching expanse of grass and reeds, and half-submerged meadowlands ending in the great saltings and mudflats and tidal pools near the restless sea.

- The marsh is desolate, utterly lonely, and made lonelier by the calls and cries of the wild fowl that make their homes in the saltings.

- Wild geese and the gulls, the teal, the wigeon, the red shanks and curlews that pick their ways through the tidal pools.

- Like a lonely sentinel in the emptiness, there stands the squat white ruin of an abandoned lighthouse, close by the mouth of the river Ailder.

- Lately, it has served again as an human habitation.

- It is the home of a man, a hunchback, but a man who creates great beauty, the painter Philip Rhayader.

- Just a touch more. Bring up the... Perhaps one more silhouette to carry you over from one to the other, like that. Yes, like that.

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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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