Here it is only the first of May and the last of the pink-feet have gone already. So have the barnacle geese. All are leaving.
9 seconds sound clip from the The Snow Goose (1954) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:12:30 in the radio play.
Quote context
[...]
- I call you Frith, now you're old enough to call me Philip. Or will that seem very strange to you?
- No, it doesn't even sound strange to me. Almost as though it always should have been, Philip.
- Oh, look! More planes going to Germany.
- Yeah. More planes. More death.
- Perhaps that's why the birds are leaving so early this spring. They're afraid of the planes.
- Yes, they're leaving us to fend for ourselves.
- Planes and bombs. No wonder they're frightened.
- The snow goose! The princess, she's going too. Oh, no!
- Where is she going? Oh, she's flying too low for that.
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