8 seconds sound clip from the The Snow Goose (1954) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:18:35 in the radio play.
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- But it's madness. They'll all be killed. What can they do?
- Well, they can do something. Get the men off the beaches to the transports and destroyers that are standing offshore, that can't get into the shallows.
- You see, that's what I can do. Six or seven men at a time. Get them off the beaches.
- Philip, must you go? You'll not come back. Why must it be you?
- Oh, no, listen. Those men are huddled on the beaches like hunted birds. You know, the wounded and the hunted birds we used to find and bring into the sanctuary.
- Over them are flying the planes like steel peregrines, hawks and falcons. There's no shelter in which to hide.
- They're lost and storm-driven and harried, like the lost princess was when you found her, and brought her to me from the marshes that time we healed her, you remember?
- You're not... You're bad arm, Philip.
- This is something I can do. You know I can. Just for once I can be a man and play my part.
- I'll come with you.
- No, no, no. Your place in the boat would cause a soldier to be left behind, and another, and another.
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