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The Square Egg, and Other Sketches, by Saki
Richard Crowest
18 episodes
7 months ago
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.
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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.
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Comedy Fiction
Fiction
Episodes (18/18)
The Square Egg, and Other Sketches, by Saki
The East Wing: A Tragedy in the Manner of the Discursive Dramatists
“How well he reads our sex,” murmured Mrs Gramplain, “and yet how badly he plays bridge!”
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3 years ago
13 minutes 50 seconds

The Square Egg, and Other Sketches, by Saki
Mrs. Pendercoet’s Lost Identity: A Tragedy of the Chelsea Arts Club Ball
“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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3 years ago
5 minutes 50 seconds

The Square Egg, and Other Sketches, by Saki
The Optimist
“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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3 years ago
12 minutes 4 seconds

The Square Egg, and Other Sketches, by Saki
Camels
“The camel is old—horribly, mustily old—and it is difficult to conceive that it has ever been anything else.”
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4 years ago
5 minutes 8 seconds

The Square Egg, and Other Sketches, by Saki
A Shot in the Dark
“‘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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5 years ago
11 minutes 27 seconds

The Square Egg, and Other Sketches, by Saki
A Sacrifice to Necessity
“‘It seems there is just one way out of the tangle. He’s inclined to be amorous.’”
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5 years ago
9 minutes 59 seconds

The Square Egg, and Other Sketches, by Saki
A Housing Problem – The Solution of an Insoluble Dilemma
“‘We can’t keep shifting Mr. Chermbacon backwards and forwards as though he was the regulator of an erratic clock.’”
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5 years ago
9 minutes 43 seconds

The Square Egg, and Other Sketches, by Saki
The Almanack
“‘As your mother says, you are a mass of selfishness.’”
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5 years ago
10 minutes 43 seconds

The Square Egg, and Other Sketches, by Saki
The Holy War
“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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5 years ago
12 minutes 55 seconds

The Square Egg, and Other Sketches, by Saki
The Pond
“How long would she struggle in those unfathomed weed-grown depths before she lay as picturesquely still as the drowned heroine of her tale-weavings?”
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5 years ago
12 minutes 11 seconds

The Square Egg, and Other Sketches, by Saki
The Comments of Moung Ka
“In Burma it is possible to be a politician without ceasing to be a philosopher.”
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6 years ago
7 minutes 42 seconds

The Square Egg, and Other Sketches, by Saki
Clovis on the Alleged Romance of Business
“Most of those terms are probably wrong, but a little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.”
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6 years ago
3 minutes 37 seconds

The Square Egg, and Other Sketches, by Saki
The Old Town of Pskoff
“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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6 years ago
7 minutes 32 seconds

The Square Egg, and Other Sketches, by Saki
The Achievement of the Cat
“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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6 years ago
5 minutes 41 seconds

The Square Egg, and Other Sketches, by Saki
The Infernal Parliament
“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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6 years ago
8 minutes 56 seconds

The Square Egg, and Other Sketches, by Saki
The Gala Programme
“It takes all sorts to make a sex.”
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6 years ago
7 minutes 56 seconds

The Square Egg, and Other Sketches, by Saki
Birds on the Western Front
“The lark would suddenly dash skyward and pour forth a song of ecstatic jubilation that sounded horribly forced and insincere.”
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6 years ago
8 minutes 47 seconds

The Square Egg, and Other Sketches, by Saki
The Square Egg - A Badger’s-Eye View of the War Mud in the Trenches
“Much more to be thought about than the enemy over yonder or the war all over Europe is the mud of the moment.”
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6 years ago
14 minutes 1 second

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.