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

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

You can hear this line at 00:00:41 in the radio play.

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- The National Broadcasting Company presents, transcribed, Sir Laurence Olivier in Theater Royal.

- Good evening. Today's play, and our last in this series, is based on a story which is forever haunting to me, by Paul Gallico.

- 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.

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