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

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

You can hear this line at 00:04:31 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- I'll have to be a bit stronger than that.

- 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.

[...]

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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