Podcasts by The Square Egg, and Other Sketches, by Saki
A series of professionally produced readings of the final collection of short stories by Saki (H H Munro), who was killed on the Somme in November 1916.
Further podcasts by Richard Crowest
Podcast on the topic Comedy-Fiction
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The Infernal Parliament from 2022-03-04T16:19:33.789494
“Bidderdale’s attention was caught by an item on a loose sheet of agenda paper: ‘Vote on account of special Hells.’”
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The East Wing: A Tragedy in the Manner of the Discursive Dramatists from 2022-01-23T16:00
“How well he reads our sex,” murmured Mrs Gramplain, “and yet how badly he plays bridge!”
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The East Wing: A Tragedy in the Manner of the Discursive Dramatists from 2022-01-23T16:00
“How well he reads our sex,” murmured Mrs Gramplain, “and yet how badly he plays bridge!”
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The East Wing: A Tragedy in the Manner of the Discursive Dramatists from 2022-01-23T16:00
“How well he reads our sex,” murmured Mrs Gramplain, “and yet how badly he plays bridge!”
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Mrs. Pendercoet’s Lost Identity: A Tragedy of the Chelsea Arts Club Ball from 2021-12-15T14:30
“There is one character in fiction one hears no end of, but no one has ever seen her represented in portrait or in the flesh.”
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The Optimist from 2021-11-14T21:50
“Once again Duncombe experienced the uncomfortable certainty of being face to face with a tragedy whose nature he could not guess at.”
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A Shot in the Dark from 2020-05-29T18:40
“‘I laid a trap for you; I told you that I had never met Mrs. Saltpen-Jago. As a matter of fact I met her at lunch on Monday last. She is a pronounced blonde.’”
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A Sacrifice to Necessity from 2020-04-30T17:05
“‘It seems there is just one way out of the tangle. He’s inclined to be amorous.’”
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The Holy War from 2020-01-31T15:00
“Yealmton and his wife waged a politely reticent warfare; it was a struggle which Thirza knew she must ultimately win, because she was fighting for existence.”
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The Comments of Moung Ka from 2019-10-05T09:55
“In Burma it is possible to be a politician without ceasing to be a philosopher.”
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Clovis on the Alleged Romance of Business from 2019-08-30T16:45
“Most of those terms are probably wrong, but a little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.”
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The Old Town of Pskoff from 2019-06-24T17:50
“To the average modern Russian a desire to visit Pskoff is an inexplicable mental freak on the part of a foreigner who wishes to see something of the country he is living in.”
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The Achievement of the Cat from 2019-04-26T17:30
“It is, indeed, no small triumph to have combined the untrammelled liberty of primeval savagery with the luxury which only a highly developed civilization can command.”
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Birds on the Western Front from 2018-12-30T21:30
“The lark would suddenly dash skyward and pour forth a song of ecstatic jubilation that sounded horribly forced and insincere.”
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