Podcasts by The Toys of Peace and other papers, by Saki
‘We are merely trammelled by the ordinary decent conventions of civilised society.’
A series of professionally produced readings of the penultimate collection of satirical short stories by Saki (H H Munro).
Further podcasts by Richard Crowest
Podcast on the topic Comedy
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The Toys of Peace from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
“Once back at the Louvre and the girls are mine!"
ListenThe Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
“He got a message one day telling him that his wife had been kidnapped and smuggled out of the country."
ListenThe Wolves of Cernogratz from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
“When one has nothing left to one but memories, one guards and dusts them with especial care."
ListenThe Guests from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
“… any one will admit that it was an embarrassing predicament to have your only available guest-room occupied by a leopard…"
ListenBertie's Christmas Eve from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
“In the course of half an hour or so everything that it was permissible to say about Bertie had been said some dozens of times."
ListenForewarned from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
“Never, in any novel that she had read, had a defenceless young woman been confronted with a situation like this."
ListenThe Interlopers from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
“A man stood one winter night watching and listening, as though he waited for some beast of the woods to come within range of his vision, and, later, of his rifle."
ListenQuail Seed from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
“‘We might be living in the Arabian Nights,’ said Miss Fritten, excitedly."
ListenThe Threat from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
“‘In the process of recapture the birds learned a quantity of additional language which unfitted them for further service in the Suffragette cause.’"
ListenExcepting Mrs. Pentherby from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
“‘The hand that rocks the cradle rocks the world, in a volcanic sense.’"
ListenThe Hedgehog from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
“‘I sometimes think these garden-parties are a mistake.’"
ListenThe Mappined Life from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
“‘We are just so many animals stuck down on a Mappin terrace…’"
ListenShock Tactics from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
“‘Don’t forget the jewels. They are a detail, but details interest me.’”
ListenThe Seven Cream Jugs from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
“This particular scion was known by the ignominious and expressive label of Wilfrid the Snatcher.”
ListenThe Occasional Garden from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
“‘It’s too large to be ignored altogether and treated as a yard, and it’s too small to keep giraffes in.’”
ListenThe Oversight from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
“‘Intensive bear-gardening was Sir Richard’s description of the whole affair, and I don’t think he exaggerated.’”
ListenThe Image of the Lost Soul from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
“There floated up to him, through the noise and bustle of the Cathedral world, a faint heart-aching message from the prisoner in the wicker cage far below.”
ListenThe Purple of the Balkan Kings from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
“Luitpold Wolkenstein drank his coffee, but the flavour had somehow gone out of it.”
ListenThe Cupboard of the Yesterdays from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
“War is a cruelly destructive thing.”
ListenFor the Duration of the War from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
“It was there, among the gooseberry bushes and beneath the medlar trees, that the temptation to the perpetration of a great literary fraud came to him.”
ListenFor the Duration of the War from 2018-09-20T16:45
“It was there, among the gooseberry bushes and beneath the medlar trees, that the temptation to the perpetration of a great literary fraud came to him.”
ListenFor the Duration of the War from 2018-09-20T16:45
“It was there, among the gooseberry bushes and beneath the medlar trees, that the temptation to the perpetration of a great literary fraud came to him.”
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