- What's that bird on a rail for heaven's sake?
- Looks like a goose.
- It is, sir.

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

You can hear this line at 00:23:18 in the radio play.

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- 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.

- 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.

- A wild goose? That one looks tame. Almost like a pet that he'd brought over with him.

- Floating mine on the port bow!

- A mine. Look, mister, right in our course. Do you realise if we hadn't stopped we'd probably have hit it?

- Aye, it's more than likely, sir.

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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.

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.

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

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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