“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

Jan 31st, 2018 8m 40s

“War is a cruelly destructive thing.”

The Purple of the Balkan Kings

Dec 31st, 2017 7m 29s

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

The Image of the Lost Soul

Nov 30th, 2017 6m 19s

“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

Oct 22nd, 2017 13m 50s

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

The Oversight

Aug 11th, 2017 10m 19s

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

The Sheep

May 31st, 2017 12m 54s

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

The Occasional Garden

May 1st, 2017 9m 33s

“‘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

Mar 30th, 2017 12m 48s

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

Shock Tactics

Jan 31st, 2017 11m 36s

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

Morlvera

Dec 24th, 2016 10m 32s

“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

Nov 14th, 2016 10m 46s

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

Fate

Nov 1st, 2016 11m 3s

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

The Mappined Life

Sep 17th, 2016 9m 42s

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

The Hedgehog

Jul 31st, 2016 12m 36s

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

Mark

Jun 4th, 2016 10m 36s

“‘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

May 1st, 2016 12m 18s

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

The Threat

Apr 5th, 2016 10m 36s

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

Canossa

Jan 28th, 2016 9m 55s

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

Quail Seed

Sep 30th, 2015 14m 17s

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

The Interlopers

Aug 3rd, 2015 14m 16s

“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."