The Square Egg, and Other Sketches, by Saki

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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.

Richard Crowest


    • Jan 23, 2022 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 9m AVG DURATION
    • 18 EPISODES


    Latest episodes from The Square Egg, and Other Sketches, by Saki

    The East Wing: A Tragedy in the Manner of the Discursive Dramatists

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2022 13:50


    “How well he reads our sex,” murmured Mrs Gramplain, “and yet how badly he plays bridge!”

    Mrs. Pendercoet's Lost Identity: A Tragedy of the Chelsea Arts Club Ball

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2021 5:50


    “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.”

    The Optimist

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2021 12:04


    “Once again Duncombe experienced the uncomfortable certainty of being face to face with a tragedy whose nature he could not guess at.”

    Camels

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2021 5:08


    “The camel is old—horribly, mustily old—and it is difficult to conceive that it has ever been anything else.”

    A Shot in the Dark

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2020 11:27


    “‘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.'”

    A Sacrifice to Necessity

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2020 9:59


    “‘It seems there is just one way out of the tangle. He's inclined to be amorous.'”

    A Housing Problem – The Solution of an Insoluble Dilemma

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2020 9:43


    “‘We can't keep shifting Mr. Chermbacon backwards and forwards as though he was the regulator of an erratic clock.'”

    The Almanack

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 29, 2020 10:43


    “‘As your mother says, you are a mass of selfishness.'”

    The Holy War

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2020 12:55


    “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.”

    The Pond

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 24, 2019 12:11


    “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?”

    The Comments of Moung Ka

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2019 7:42


    “In Burma it is possible to be a politician without ceasing to be a philosopher.”

    Clovis on the Alleged Romance of Business

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2019 3:37


    “Most of those terms are probably wrong, but a little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.”

    The Old Town of Pskoff

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2019 7:32


    “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.”

    The Achievement of the Cat

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2019 5:41


    “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.”

    The Infernal Parliament

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2019 8:56


    “Bidderdale's attention was caught by an item on a loose sheet of agenda paper: ‘Vote on account of special Hells.'”

    The Gala Programme

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2019 7:56


    “It takes all sorts to make a sex.”

    Birds on the Western Front

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2018 8:47


    “The lark would suddenly dash skyward and pour forth a song of ecstatic jubilation that sounded horribly forced and insincere.”

    The Square Egg - A Badger's-Eye View of the War Mud in the Trenches

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2018 14:01


    “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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