Reginald, By Saki

  • Author: Vários
  • Narrator: Vários
  • Publisher: Podcast
  • Duration: 3:59:05
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Synopsis

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.

Episodes

  • Now available - The Toys of Peace and Other Papers

    30/06/2014 Duration: 24s

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  • The Mouse

    31/05/2014 Duration: 10min

    ‘… he proceeded with violent haste to extricate himself partially and the mouse entirely from the surrounding casings of tweed and half-wool.’

  • The Baker’s Dozen

    24/05/2014 Duration: 10min

    ‘“We can’t wait indefinitely for one of the children to take after a doubtfully depraved great aunt.”’

  • Cross Currents

    02/05/2014 Duration: 15min

    ‘To be beyond reproach was one thing, but it would have been nicer to have been nearer to the Park.’

  • The Strategist

    22/04/2014 Duration: 10min

    ‘Rollo faced the company with a smile that he imagined the better sort of aristocrat would have worn when mounting to the guillotine.’

  • The Bag

    31/03/2014 Duration: 11min

    ‘Major Pallaby was a victim of circumstances, over which he had no control, and of his temper, over which he had very little.’

  • The Soul of Laploshka

    17/03/2014 Duration: 11min

    ‘Laploshka was one of the meanest men I have ever met, and quite one of the most entertaining.’

  • The Saint and the Goblin

    28/02/2014 Duration: 07min

    ‘The goblin was too well bred to wink; besides, being a stone goblin, it was out of the question.’

  • Gabriel-Ernest

    31/01/2014 Duration: 16min

    ‘“Flesh,” said the boy, and he pronounced the word with slow relish…’

  • Judkin of the Parcels

    18/01/2014 Duration: 06min

    “And Judkin was even as these others; the wine had been suddenly spilt from his cup of life...”

  • A Young Turkish Catastrophe - in Two Scenes

    30/12/2013 Duration: 04min

    “Ali had wasted little effort on election literature, but had been heard to remark that every vote given to his opponent meant another sack thrown in the Bosporus.”

  • The Blood-Feud of Toad-Water

    15/12/2013 Duration: 08min

    “Thus all communication between the households was sundered. Except the cats.”

  • The Sex That Doesn’t Shop

    30/11/2013 Duration: 06min

    “Agatha apparently has an idea that blotting-paper is only sold in small quantities to persons of known reputation, who may be trusted not to put it to dangerous or improper uses.”

  • The Lost Sanjak

    24/11/2013 Duration: 13min

    “Any one who has valeted a dead Salvation Army captain in an uncertain light will appreciate the difficulty.”

  • The Reticence of Lady Anne

    30/10/2013 Duration: 07min

    “As a rule Lady Anne’s displeasure became articulate and markedly voluble after four minutes of introductory muteness.”

  • Reginald in Russia

    21/10/2013 Duration: 07min

    “I always refused to learn Russian geography at school,”; observed Reginald; “I was certain some of the names must be wrong.”

  • The Innocence of Reginald

    30/09/2013 Duration: 06min

    “Youth,” said the Other, “should suggest innocence.” “But never act on the suggestion.”

  • Reginald's Rubaiyat

    19/09/2013 Duration: 07min

    “She said it wasn’t Persian enough, as though I were trying to sell her a kitten whose mother had married for love rather than pedigree.”

  • Reginald's Christmas Revel

    31/08/2013 Duration: 07min

    “I privately wished that the bears would win sometimes on these occasions; at least they wouldn’t go vapouring about it afterwards.”

  • Reginald on Tariffs

    24/08/2013 Duration: 06min

    “Mrs. Nicorax says I have no delicacy; she hasn’t forgiven me about the mice.”

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