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

— (Laurence Olivier)

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

You can hear this line at 00:04:37 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- After all, she's a big bird, isn't she?

- Aye.

- It were all I could do to pick her up and carry her to you.

- Yes, it must have been.

- Why don't you bring her in to me, I wonder?

- I heard tell that he keeps birds in cages, and feeds them and looks after them, and won't let no one go shooting at them in your land.

- Yeah. Yeah, that's right. I'm fond of birds. I like looking after them.

- Where did she come from, did you say?

- From Canada. That's a land far, far across the seas. Beautiful daughter of England.

- She's quite a young bird. No more than a year old, I'd say.

- She's born up there in northern Canada, and when she flew south to escape the snow and ice and bitter cold, a great storm must have seized her and whirled and buffeted her about.

- At last, exhausted by her ordeal, she sank to rest in this friendly green marsh only to be shot at by a hunter's gun.

- A bitter reception for a visiting princess.

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