The Toys of Peace and other papers, by Saki

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‘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).

Richard Crowest


    • Sep 20, 2018 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 11m AVG DURATION
    • 33 EPISODES


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    For the Duration of the War

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2018 10:59


    “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.”

    The Cupboard of the Yesterdays

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2018 8:40


    The Purple of the Balkan Kings

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2017 7:29


    “Luitpold Wolkenstein drank his coffee, but the flavour had somehow gone out of it.”

    The Image of the Lost Soul

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 30, 2017 6:19


    “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.”

    Hyacinth

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2017 13:50


    “‘Children with Hyacinth’s temperament don’t know better as they grow older; they merely know more.’”

    The Oversight

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2017 10:19


    “‘Intensive bear-gardening was Sir Richard’s description of the whole affair, and I don’t think he exaggerated.’”

    The Sheep

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2017 12:54


    “‘I’m afraid I lost touch with the audience rather over that remark,’ said the Sheep afterwards.”

    The Occasional Garden

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2017 9:33


    “‘It’s too large to be ignored altogether and treated as a yard, and it’s too small to keep giraffes in.’”

    The Seven Cream Jugs

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2017 12:48


    “This particular scion was known by the ignominious and expressive label of Wilfrid the Snatcher.”

    Shock Tactics

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2017 11:36


    “‘Don’t forget the jewels. They are a detail, but details interest me.’”

    Morlvera

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 24, 2016 10:32


    “They were the sort of toys that a tired shop-assistant displays and explains at Christmas time to exclamatory parents and bored, silent children.”

    The Bull

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2016 10:46


    “Now, the man of pigments was going to be shown a real picture, a living model of strength and comeliness."

    Fate

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2016 11:03


    “There are occasions when one must take one’s Fate in one’s hands. Rex took the lamp in his.”

    The Mappined Life

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2016 9:42


    “‘We are just so many animals stuck down on a Mappin terrace…’"

    The Hedgehog

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2016 12:36


    “‘I sometimes think these garden-parties are a mistake.’"

    Mark

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2016 10:36


    “‘A friend of mine said only the other day that he would as soon think of going into the tropics without quinine as of going on a visit without a couple of Mark Mellowkents in his kit-bag.’"

    Excepting Mrs. Pentherby

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2016 12:18


    “‘The hand that rocks the cradle rocks the world, in a volcanic sense.’"

    The Threat

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2016 10:36


    “‘In the process of recapture the birds learned a quantity of additional language which unfitted them for further service in the Suffragette cause.’"

    Canossa

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2016 9:55


    “‘And may the Lord have mercy on the poll...’"

    Quail Seed

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2015 14:17


    “‘We might be living in the Arabian Nights,’ said Miss Fritten, excitedly."

    The Interlopers

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2015 14:16


    “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."

    Forewarned

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2015 15:32


    “Never, in any novel that she had read, had a defenceless young woman been confronted with a situation like this."

    Bertie's Christmas Eve

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2015 13:23


    “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."

    A Bread and Butter Miss

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2015 10:55


    The Guests

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2015 9:11


    “… any one will admit that it was an embarrassing predicament to have your only available guest-room occupied by a leopard…"

    Louis

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2014 10:53


    “… all that Lena will find when she comes home late in the afternoon will be a placidly defunct Louis."

    The Wolves of Cernogratz

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2014 11:39


    “When one has nothing left to one but memories, one guards and dusts them with especial care."

    The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2014 11:44


    “He got a message one day telling him that his wife had been kidnapped and smuggled out of the country."

    Tea

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2014 10:42


    “If one’s soul was really enslaved at one’s mistress’s feet how could one talk coherently about weakened tea?"

    Louise

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2014 8:50


    “If you say things like that, quite loud, in a Tube lift, they always sound like epigrams."

    The Toys of Peace

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2014 12:12


    “Once back at the Louvre and the girls are mine!"

    Foreword: Hector Hugh Munro

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2014 21:53


    “I have always looked forward to the romance of a European war…” A portrait of Saki, his beliefs and his attitude to World War I, by his friend Rothay Reynolds.

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