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Reginald, by Saki
Hosted by Richard Crowest · EN
‘Scandal is merely the compassionate allowance which the gay make to the humdrum.’
A series of professionally produced readings of the Reginald stories by Saki (H H Munro). View the world of Edwardian society through the sartorially adapted eye of Saki's solipsistic anti-hero.
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Now available - The Toys of Peace and Other Papers
Jun 30, 201400:00:24Tap to summarizeMy next Saki audiobook podcast, The Toys of Peace, is available now. Visit http://corvidae.co.uk/saki/ or subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/toys-peace-other-papers-by/id894688644
Transcribe →The Mouse
May 31, 201400:10:00Tap to summarize‘… he proceeded with violent haste to extricate himself partially and the mouse entirely from the surrounding casings of tweed and half-wool.’
Transcribe →The Baker’s Dozen
May 24, 201400:10:19Tap to summarize‘“We can’t wait indefinitely for one of the children to take after a doubtfully depraved great aunt.”’
Transcribe →Cross Currents
May 2, 201400:15:29Tap to summarize‘To be beyond reproach was one thing, but it would have been nicer to have been nearer to the Park.’
Transcribe →The Strategist
Apr 22, 201400:10:05Tap to summarize‘Rollo faced the company with a smile that he imagined the better sort of aristocrat would have worn when mounting to the guillotine.’
Transcribe →The Bag
Mar 31, 201400:11:51Tap to summarize‘Major Pallaby was a victim of circumstances, over which he had no control, and of his temper, over which he had very little.’
Transcribe →The Soul of Laploshka
Mar 17, 201400:11:49Tap to summarize‘Laploshka was one of the meanest men I have ever met, and quite one of the most entertaining.’
Transcribe →The Saint and the Goblin
Feb 28, 201400:07:01Tap to summarize‘The goblin was too well bred to wink; besides, being a stone goblin, it was out of the question.’
Transcribe →Gabriel-Ernest
Jan 31, 201400:16:50Tap to summarize‘“Flesh,” said the boy, and he pronounced the word with slow relish…’
Transcribe →Judkin of the Parcels
Jan 18, 201400:06:16Tap to summarize“And Judkin was even as these others; the wine had been suddenly spilt from his cup of life...”
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