The Green Man (1956)

George Cole: William Blake

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• Ann Vincent : How do you know she was murdered?

  William Blake : Well, people don't usually commit suicide in a boudoir grand.

• Radio Announcer : This is the BBC Home Service. "Five Minutes of Free Verse".

  William Blake : We can do without that.

  Radio Announcer : Here is Reginald Willoughby-Cruft who will read a group of poems by Milton Boyle entitled "Vicious Cycle."

  Reginald Willoughby-Cruft : "Her beauty has a kind of ugliness, a strangulated loveliness, compressing the jugular of my sensitivity as ivy tourniquets trunk of tree turning the arboreal royalty into beanpole servitors. Burying the berries in a fruitless operation so that the name of her - Ann... Ann... Asininely monosyllabic. The mere label she goes by. Yet pulsing with a drum beat. Ann - Ann - Ann - Ann!" Ann, I can't go on. Listen to me, wherever you are. You can go to your blasted vacuum cleaner. I'm through. Through, through, through, through...

  Radio Announcer : We must apologise to listeners for a slight technical hitch. And that brings us to the end of broadcasting for tonight. Goodnight, everybody. Goodnight.