Five Tales By Saki

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HH Munro - Five Tales By Saki: 4. The Toys of Peace

HH Munro - Five Tales By Saki

4. The Toys of Peace

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Will Leonora's boys like her brother Harvey's presents?

Will Leonora's boys like her brother Harvey's presents, chosen so they can't be used in war games? Stars Anthony Calf.

Harvey is encouraged by his right-thinking sister to give toys that can't be used for war to her two sons. 

But children, in a Saki tale, are immensely inventive... 

Five Tales by Saki (HH Munro), dramatised by Roger Davenport. 

Harvey    ......    Anthony Calf
Leonora    ......    Beth Chalmers
Eric    ......    Ben Tibber  
Bertie    ......    Anton Rice
Waitress    ......    Alex Tregear

Director: Ned Chaillet 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2005.

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A collection of tales from the master Edwardian short story writer HH Munro

A collection of tales from the master Edwardian short story writer HH Munro, who wrote under the pen name of Saki

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