August 9, 2025 • 23 mins
Black Mass featured macabre and supernatural tales with a eldritch vibe. The series is also comprised of dramatic readings of dark-themed classic literature from the likes of H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe and several others.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
To the black Man.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Tonight a story about television by Jay Anthony West, appropriately
called atrophy h.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Gun smoke the headache tablet to relieve pain so related
calm nerves. This message can save you hours and hours
of pain, headache, pain, pain, depression. Pain. Oh, actually, what's
the most anxiety? What's gone to say?
Speaker 4 (01:49):
That?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
All pain?
Speaker 5 (01:53):
It tells it today, George, he needs jam.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Sorry, that must have been sitting in the same position to.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
An hour of this pain event any leading headache tapping.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
George, I can't help it. I have to wake it up.
And he's put forward the sleep putting right now in
as headache pain is gone gone to me. You can
do you, Madia is to hop out in the hose
to wake up.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Charge child?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
What childe about? Wake my foot up? Trying to wake
up my foot?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
If you'll just sit.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Down here and you get a little pass.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Oh, George, what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
They got my shoes? Can suppose they do?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
You're saying there with your shoe.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I can't. I don't got my shoes in my own house,
but you always shoe.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Completely intensitive to watch the pret.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
I know, I know I'm being silly. I can't work
program when my foots are sleep.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Do you have no intinal fortitude?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Johns may to say? It isn't your foot.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I wouldn't make it fast.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Pat then a big baby, all this.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Well, there's something wrong with it, sure, I'm sureless. Look
I can't move it, and the foot stiff somehow, See
for it won't move.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
You're holding back. Don't take your socker.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Yeah, will you pay attention? No, no, don't believe me.
Look see I can't fex my tosy. My whole foot's ridgie.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
You're doing it on purpose. You just want my sper.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Look. No, I can't move it. I know when I'm
trying and when I'm not. I'm trying trying to move
it yourself.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I don't want to play games at your sweaty foot.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
My foot isn't sweaty to this weather, all right, and
foot sweaty? You try and move it over.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
You can't move your foot.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I can tell by the tone of your voice.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Your foolish move it.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I believe it is not asleep. There's something wrong with it,
doesn't would you just like that?
Speaker 4 (04:04):
You're such a hypochondriactual, Just like the time you thought
you had an appendicitis.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
It was gus things.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
And what was I supposed to think? I was lying
on the bed in agony. It might have been appendicitis.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Well it was, and you're not lying in agony right now.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Your foot is asleep.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
And why you have to make such a fuss about it.
I just don't know it does when it's very soundly asleep.
Maybe you sprained it walking around?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Well, how would I do? You walk to the obvious?
And I walked to the water pooler twice three times.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
You see, usually you only go to the water.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
But I went to the men room once. That makes
up for it about things you don't know the.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
First How am I supposed to know? You'll go twice?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Precisely? What I mean, let's forget the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Can over exert a tendon and not know it? Robbers
he filled down.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
The subway stairs and broke three weeks and a thing
about it for a week.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
I didn't fall down the subway. Then I didn't know
where I've got attendant and Jeraldine Roberts were due to
the amens.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
You know, so what your friend water is a complete lush.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
We won't talking about it.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Wad hurt nor end you walk like a war hero, George,
only when I laugh.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
I am not a war hero, and I don't want.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
To walk like one still be such a milt.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
George could have been a war hero. I was in
Jersey training recruits.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Save this crew and a nervous private drop the handrly
in another sell regiment who be blown to s withereen
and you leap.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Ont God, all of which results in a different foot.
I spose, but I was training them to use a
calculating machine. And if someone dropped a handy Madri Madrie,
my other footsn stiff. I can't RelA.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
You mustn't get this excited.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Let stop, come and sit down and it will pass
in a moment. Your other foot's gone to such.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
A fuss about every little thing fast Christ.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Do you think I wouldst anybody? Me? George, your husband?
Suddenly I'm paralyzed. I can't walk and you can walk off.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
You were just walking?
Speaker 3 (06:21):
You call this hump? Look is this walking?
Speaker 4 (06:25):
There are millions of people who would give their right
arm to walk that.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Well, and what the hell do I care about them?
It's me, George. You can't walk right now. Sit there.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
You don't have leprosy, George, if you had leprosy.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Your feet wouldn't stiffen, they'd fall up. My deprosy was
all over, leprosy.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Cut up contus.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
I'm frightened.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
I was just trying to cheer you up, dear. Now
look at it.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
It can't.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
If it were something serious, they'd have to be symptoms.
Now now, there's no serious disease without symptom. I think
you should just go off to bed now and put
the whole thing out of your mind.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
You'll feel morrow morning.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Oh, you have no idea, fully shut.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I care about appearance.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
You might at least try to behave like a parents
is always appearances with you.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
All women are the same. Intrinsic value means nothing to
do at all, as long as.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
It looks not true, George, and you know.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Nothing was ever more true. You would eat hot serve
with parsley. I wouldn't know you would. I wouldn't you
would wouldn't, would wouldn't, wouldn't, wouldn't, would would would wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Wouldn't, would not.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Talking about nothing was wrong? It might be to paralyzed.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
What are we gonna do?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
What are we gonna do?
Speaker 4 (07:44):
The First thing, you mustn't let yourself get to excited
if you were a professional tennis star.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Or something, I can understand. But all you have to.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Do suppose get to the office. As long as I doesn't.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
President Roosevelt had to go around in a wheel chair,
and that didn't stop him from becoming You don't understand.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
I don't understand stand, George.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Believe me, I do. In a week, you'll get the
hang of it, really you will.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Beside, it will be all better in the morning.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
You know it won't. Up there with his feet that
was stiffen.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
You always think you're better than everything. It happens to lots.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Of name one personally. That's why I'm worried. If we
just knew what it was, all right, I had no
point in getting the first thing wrong with you when
you got running with the doctor.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Do you want me to call the doctor glass for
a glass if it's no better anymore?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
All right?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Yeah, you know, you know I think it madorie, Marjorie,
my knee, it's my knee. I can't move my knee. Please,
God's sacredly look, I need complete George.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Dear, relax, please Rex, I'll go and call the doctor.
Please relax, docts.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
Hello, Hello, Hello, Marjorie, what's taking so long?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
The doctor wasn't India. I'm calling another one.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Hello, Marjorie, Marjorie, for love God, why where salarized? Hurry?
Speaker 4 (09:32):
I really can't carry on two conversations.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Just once my knee.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Well, well, Crete, Well what do you think?
Speaker 1 (09:43):
What is just what I told you? Nothing serious?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I did you know what it was?
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Coursing you?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Did you think you were the only god?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Alright? Nose Servens tell me what he said?
Speaker 5 (09:56):
What atrophy and the.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Accident plain column accusynstandardly?
Speaker 3 (10:08):
So let's it interesting? Well, at least we know what
it is. I told you it wasn't knowing that scared me. Well,
now what do we do about it? Nothing? Nothing. You
may have told me that I have a fatal disease.
I have a fatal disease.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Nothing we can do, George, get there's nothing fatal about
the disease.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
The doctor to worry about it.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
But there are absolutely no dangerous effects.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Well, I suppose that's a relief. Nothing we can do
a dangerous effect.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Right, you can do anything you would do normally except move.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Well, that's at least something we should be grateful for that.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
You have to have, George, courage.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
We have to fashion a whole new life for ourselves.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
It won't be easy.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Mm hmm. I can't face it happening too quickly this evening.
I was a man in my prime. I could have
done anything I wanted.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Now we can start from scratch, George, Dear.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
We'll start a new anymore. I can't go with it.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Never went for walks, Dear? When did you never.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Take a walk that doesn't request? I can't not if
I wanted to, and I was planning on taking a walk,
Actually help me other Sunday, I was going to walk
around the block.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
You have to stop thinking this way, George.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
You can't give into around the block.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Stop George. You know you wouldn't have gone.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I was planning to.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
There's nothing on the other side of the block anyhow,
there and there's nothing nothing.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Well hard, that's what I mean. You say I wanted
to see them assell George.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
You must take my word for it. There's nothing interesting
to be seen.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Oh I suppose I've just got to get used to
the whole idea. H My thighs, My thighs just went on.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
I can't back time for your sake, for mine have churage.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Well, those things could have been worse. Suppose it hadn't
happened at homee. I'm in the subway of time.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
You are wonderful, Darling.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
I don't like this any better than you do. I
can't go bowling anymore or fishing, won't play ball, nothing.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
George, Darling, you never went bowling.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
You know?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Those things?
Speaker 3 (12:26):
No true? But I'm so young I could have done them.
I can't ping pong?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Who never played ping pong?
Speaker 5 (12:36):
I always want to do well.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
We have to make him living.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
You can't go to work. What will we live?
Speaker 5 (12:42):
We have to eat.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
I'll work, George, I don't care. Don't you worry. I'll
do anything I've taken washing our scub floors are working
in a miry shop.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Don't you worry. I'll keep us going and maybe we
can get back there. Modelings? Are they sure? Let's see now?
You know, do we need money with our social security
coming to benefits, disability or our policies? Very much?
Speaker 4 (13:07):
You know?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I think of for here a week?
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Yes, well, the price we have to pay, it's not
so bad, not so bad at all.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
We can buy the things we've always wanted. My own
need will be less. Uh, just let me.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Don't do that, dear, reach for the peanuts. Who knows
any minute now you'll be reaching for peanuts.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
The rest of your life.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
I'm still If you want something, dear, ask me for it.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Is there anything you want?
Speaker 4 (13:36):
You can still move from the waste.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Atripay at my waist?
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Well stop, George, why stop? George?
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Stop?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Why asked.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Thinking?
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Sitting around? So it's awful sitting what shoed happen?
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Gets differ for cinema and came back and found you
atrifid and find.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
By inch you crying, And please don't get emotional to
do that.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Tell me what you want.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
I'll do it for you morning, anything, George, no matter house.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Would you scratch my nose for me? A little?
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Thanks?
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Life ahead of you, and you'll never be able to
scratch yourself, Old George, I have to be beside you
when sitting there's no sensation at all, actually just a
few moments. It's the worst part of war, whole life
to live, and you'll never know what.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
It is to be.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Oh my dear, you know how miss it's making myself
snacks for the Late show marvelous. I'm the same thing,
don't understand you see when you got a bit early.
I stay up for the late show and the late
late show, and in between the two I get a
little hungry. Houses leave the crant. Sometimes I have buzzes
(15:03):
down the avenue on the cylinder. Heaven looks like there
isn't a bit of food in the place, And I
go to the refrigerator and open it in a whole
world of midnight snakes. Lights up there before my eyes,
carrying some green herring in wine, sauce, stunts and ends
of cheddar, mental olives, a spread quart of Katado blue cheese.
(15:31):
Go through over thing, look around and pick up one.
There are dishes, dishes with covers on them, the little
things that were lived up in the mount.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
One by one, take off the cover.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Yeah, two slices of roast, pea of their ring. Don't choose, No,
don't choose. Go to the bed box, half a loaf
of rye, three or four kinds of crackers, dungeon. Go
to the pantry, peanut butter, all kinds of chair. Maybe
(16:13):
during the day you bought some Sunday New brand. Maybe
mm have some tuna fish salmon with the sugar and
the flour and the breakfast cereals complex No, there weren't
any complexes today. Mm corn mm nice peach and refrigerator. Yes,
(16:38):
I don't remember. I run the refrigerator. And if there
are peaches, peaches small.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
And n No, George, there aren't any peaches, dear, but
there are straw m not nice big one.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
You would straw instead.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
I never knew it meant so much to you. I
never dreamed which.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Was only something?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Small?
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Smooth are the most important, Really, Darling, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Oh, you know those roses.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
George made it.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
You mustn't do that.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
You want to give me heart failure? George, you know
what could happen just one.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Of most worry about.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Promise me you won't do that again.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
I had to reach for my last handful of peanuts.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Man, you have more courage than most men.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
George.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
No tell me that my husband was a coward.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
I don't be much.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
You know perfectly well that most men would have just sat.
Men with less character would have hesitated.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
You.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
See that spit second was all other men would have
been less decisive and.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
In that time, But you you defied fate.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Oh, I go a week and side what I think
of it?
Speaker 3 (17:54):
George?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I really do.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
I, George, I love darling.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Please don't start that over again.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
You have to see the whole rest of your life.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
We'll both know that.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
You can't ever leave ever forever you're living there.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
It's perfectly clear you don't understand, you don't see.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
You all have to bring me my food and that'll
be a bolly. You'll have the vacuum around me. Well,
I still don't see why you have to get so
excited about it.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Can't come to bed.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
You show how extra blankets. I'll be warm here.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
And me, George, I'll let you get between the cold
cheeks alone.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Oh, part of blankets they love anymore? We haven't husband
and wife.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
We aren't love anymore.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Not another chance, never again, oh George, George. I love
most things, always a little like always save thing.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
I loved you mostly, George.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
If my fault, George.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Or my fault.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
If I'd been a little more understanding before, if I'd
listened to my intuition, just a word, it's just your foot,
we could have had one last chance, just one last
time in your arm.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
I didn't anyway, it doesn't and it's no use.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
A quarrels were made up there, George. The nights were
all soft and tender in your arm. I was a
princess at dawn, died by sleeping prince.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
It was marvelous, perfect.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
Wasn't it you?
Speaker 1 (19:34):
We were passionate.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Each day was an experience, wasn't it, George?
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Eight hours out of paradise. We were very happy, were we, George?
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:43):
We did things together, live, we lived, Everyone ended us.
We made life so exciting, never fought, never bickered like
other couples.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Were happy.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Oh yes, I said, were happy the night, George.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
How would I get through the long nights alone?
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Lies?
Speaker 1 (20:01):
We're all before us. So I'm thirty two, George, a girl,
a young girl, and you thirty four. Your life has
just begun.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Man, Yes, dear you sure I'm thirty four?
Speaker 5 (20:19):
No? Sure? My soulder than that fixed your mind too?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
No? No, no, really, well you know it is that
one day is like the next. Yeah. Then my neck.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
It's all over, George, Olive are finished. There's nothing left
for us.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
No, that's not true.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Much.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
We can still talk, Yes, yes, we can still talk.
That's right, George. We can still talk.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Talk to me, Darling.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
I can't just talk something to say?
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Of course, you think of something, you'll talk to me
won't you.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
George, promise me you.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Mustn't worry, Darling. I'll always be beside you whenever you
need me.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
I'll leave your side always. I'll never leave you for another.
I'll refuse all invitations. I won't let myself be tempted. George.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Watch, I can't you know? Focus straight ahead at the
time I can leaven.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Well, it's all God for that, George.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Don't see Yes, I can see you.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Aren't you afraid? George? Look, no, boys, not that.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Too, George, George talked, say something from last thing.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Don't leave me like this.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Tell me what it's like.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
What do you say?
Speaker 4 (21:57):
I've got to know.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
George, it's since bad not.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
That was atrophy adopted by Richard Rowland from a story
by J.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Anthony West. The part of.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
George was played by Bernard Mays and Pat Franklin was Marjorie.
Technical production was by Fred Sidon and Now good Night
To the black Man.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Tonight a story about television by Jay Anthony West, appropriately
called atrophy h.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Gun smoke the headache tablet to relieve pain so related
calm nerves. This message can save you hours and hours
of pain, headache, pain, pain, depression. Pain. Oh, actually, what's
the most anxiety? What's gone to say?
Speaker 4 (01:49):
That?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
All pain?
Speaker 5 (01:53):
It tells it today, George, he needs jam.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Sorry, that must have been sitting in the same position to.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
An hour of this pain event any leading headache tapping.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
George, I can't help it. I have to wake it up.
And he's put forward the sleep putting right now in
as headache pain is gone gone to me. You can
do you, Madia is to hop out in the hose
to wake up.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Charge child?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
What childe about? Wake my foot up? Trying to wake
up my foot?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
If you'll just sit.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Down here and you get a little pass.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Oh, George, what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
They got my shoes? Can suppose they do?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
You're saying there with your shoe.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I can't. I don't got my shoes in my own house,
but you always shoe.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Completely intensitive to watch the pret.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
I know, I know I'm being silly. I can't work
program when my foots are sleep.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Do you have no intinal fortitude?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Johns may to say? It isn't your foot.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I wouldn't make it fast.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Pat then a big baby, all this.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Well, there's something wrong with it, sure, I'm sureless. Look
I can't move it, and the foot stiff somehow, See
for it won't move.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
You're holding back. Don't take your socker.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Yeah, will you pay attention? No, no, don't believe me.
Look see I can't fex my tosy. My whole foot's ridgie.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
You're doing it on purpose. You just want my sper.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Look. No, I can't move it. I know when I'm
trying and when I'm not. I'm trying trying to move
it yourself.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I don't want to play games at your sweaty foot.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
My foot isn't sweaty to this weather, all right, and
foot sweaty? You try and move it over.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
You can't move your foot.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I can tell by the tone of your voice.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Your foolish move it.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I believe it is not asleep. There's something wrong with it,
doesn't would you just like that?
Speaker 4 (04:04):
You're such a hypochondriactual, Just like the time you thought
you had an appendicitis.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
It was gus things.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
And what was I supposed to think? I was lying
on the bed in agony. It might have been appendicitis.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Well it was, and you're not lying in agony right now.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Your foot is asleep.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
And why you have to make such a fuss about it.
I just don't know it does when it's very soundly asleep.
Maybe you sprained it walking around?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Well, how would I do? You walk to the obvious?
And I walked to the water pooler twice three times.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
You see, usually you only go to the water.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
But I went to the men room once. That makes
up for it about things you don't know the.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
First How am I supposed to know? You'll go twice?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Precisely? What I mean, let's forget the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Can over exert a tendon and not know it? Robbers
he filled down.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
The subway stairs and broke three weeks and a thing
about it for a week.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
I didn't fall down the subway. Then I didn't know
where I've got attendant and Jeraldine Roberts were due to
the amens.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
You know, so what your friend water is a complete lush.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
We won't talking about it.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Wad hurt nor end you walk like a war hero, George,
only when I laugh.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
I am not a war hero, and I don't want.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
To walk like one still be such a milt.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
George could have been a war hero. I was in
Jersey training recruits.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Save this crew and a nervous private drop the handrly
in another sell regiment who be blown to s withereen
and you leap.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Ont God, all of which results in a different foot.
I spose, but I was training them to use a
calculating machine. And if someone dropped a handy Madri Madrie,
my other footsn stiff. I can't RelA.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
You mustn't get this excited.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Let stop, come and sit down and it will pass
in a moment. Your other foot's gone to such.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
A fuss about every little thing fast Christ.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Do you think I wouldst anybody? Me? George, your husband?
Suddenly I'm paralyzed. I can't walk and you can walk off.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
You were just walking?
Speaker 3 (06:21):
You call this hump? Look is this walking?
Speaker 4 (06:25):
There are millions of people who would give their right
arm to walk that.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Well, and what the hell do I care about them?
It's me, George. You can't walk right now. Sit there.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
You don't have leprosy, George, if you had leprosy.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Your feet wouldn't stiffen, they'd fall up. My deprosy was
all over, leprosy.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Cut up contus.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
I'm frightened.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
I was just trying to cheer you up, dear. Now
look at it.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
It can't.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
If it were something serious, they'd have to be symptoms.
Now now, there's no serious disease without symptom. I think
you should just go off to bed now and put
the whole thing out of your mind.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
You'll feel morrow morning.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Oh, you have no idea, fully shut.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I care about appearance.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
You might at least try to behave like a parents
is always appearances with you.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
All women are the same. Intrinsic value means nothing to
do at all, as long as.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
It looks not true, George, and you know.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Nothing was ever more true. You would eat hot serve
with parsley. I wouldn't know you would. I wouldn't you
would wouldn't, would wouldn't, wouldn't, wouldn't, would would would wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Wouldn't, would not.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Talking about nothing was wrong? It might be to paralyzed.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
What are we gonna do?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
What are we gonna do?
Speaker 4 (07:44):
The First thing, you mustn't let yourself get to excited
if you were a professional tennis star.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Or something, I can understand. But all you have to.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Do suppose get to the office. As long as I doesn't.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
President Roosevelt had to go around in a wheel chair,
and that didn't stop him from becoming You don't understand.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
I don't understand stand, George.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Believe me, I do. In a week, you'll get the
hang of it, really you will.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Beside, it will be all better in the morning.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
You know it won't. Up there with his feet that
was stiffen.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
You always think you're better than everything. It happens to lots.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Of name one personally. That's why I'm worried. If we
just knew what it was, all right, I had no
point in getting the first thing wrong with you when
you got running with the doctor.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Do you want me to call the doctor glass for
a glass if it's no better anymore?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
All right?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Yeah, you know, you know I think it madorie, Marjorie,
my knee, it's my knee. I can't move my knee. Please,
God's sacredly look, I need complete George.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Dear, relax, please Rex, I'll go and call the doctor.
Please relax, docts.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
Hello, Hello, Hello, Marjorie, what's taking so long?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
The doctor wasn't India. I'm calling another one.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Hello, Marjorie, Marjorie, for love God, why where salarized? Hurry?
Speaker 4 (09:32):
I really can't carry on two conversations.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Just once my knee.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Well, well, Crete, Well what do you think?
Speaker 1 (09:43):
What is just what I told you? Nothing serious?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I did you know what it was?
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Coursing you?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Did you think you were the only god?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Alright? Nose Servens tell me what he said?
Speaker 5 (09:56):
What atrophy and the.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Accident plain column accusynstandardly?
Speaker 3 (10:08):
So let's it interesting? Well, at least we know what
it is. I told you it wasn't knowing that scared me. Well,
now what do we do about it? Nothing? Nothing. You
may have told me that I have a fatal disease.
I have a fatal disease.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Nothing we can do, George, get there's nothing fatal about
the disease.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
The doctor to worry about it.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
But there are absolutely no dangerous effects.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Well, I suppose that's a relief. Nothing we can do
a dangerous effect.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Right, you can do anything you would do normally except move.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Well, that's at least something we should be grateful for that.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
You have to have, George, courage.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
We have to fashion a whole new life for ourselves.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
It won't be easy.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Mm hmm. I can't face it happening too quickly this evening.
I was a man in my prime. I could have
done anything I wanted.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Now we can start from scratch, George, Dear.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
We'll start a new anymore. I can't go with it.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Never went for walks, Dear? When did you never.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Take a walk that doesn't request? I can't not if
I wanted to, and I was planning on taking a walk,
Actually help me other Sunday, I was going to walk
around the block.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
You have to stop thinking this way, George.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
You can't give into around the block.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Stop George. You know you wouldn't have gone.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I was planning to.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
There's nothing on the other side of the block anyhow,
there and there's nothing nothing.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Well hard, that's what I mean. You say I wanted
to see them assell George.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
You must take my word for it. There's nothing interesting
to be seen.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Oh I suppose I've just got to get used to
the whole idea. H My thighs, My thighs just went on.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
I can't back time for your sake, for mine have churage.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Well, those things could have been worse. Suppose it hadn't
happened at homee. I'm in the subway of time.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
You are wonderful, Darling.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
I don't like this any better than you do. I
can't go bowling anymore or fishing, won't play ball, nothing.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
George, Darling, you never went bowling.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
You know?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Those things?
Speaker 3 (12:26):
No true? But I'm so young I could have done them.
I can't ping pong?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Who never played ping pong?
Speaker 5 (12:36):
I always want to do well.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
We have to make him living.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
You can't go to work. What will we live?
Speaker 5 (12:42):
We have to eat.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
I'll work, George, I don't care. Don't you worry. I'll
do anything I've taken washing our scub floors are working
in a miry shop.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Don't you worry. I'll keep us going and maybe we
can get back there. Modelings? Are they sure? Let's see now?
You know, do we need money with our social security
coming to benefits, disability or our policies? Very much?
Speaker 4 (13:07):
You know?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I think of for here a week?
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Yes, well, the price we have to pay, it's not
so bad, not so bad at all.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
We can buy the things we've always wanted. My own
need will be less. Uh, just let me.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Don't do that, dear, reach for the peanuts. Who knows
any minute now you'll be reaching for peanuts.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
The rest of your life.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
I'm still If you want something, dear, ask me for it.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Is there anything you want?
Speaker 4 (13:36):
You can still move from the waste.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Atripay at my waist?
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Well stop, George, why stop? George?
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Stop?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Why asked.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Thinking?
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Sitting around? So it's awful sitting what shoed happen?
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Gets differ for cinema and came back and found you
atrifid and find.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
By inch you crying, And please don't get emotional to
do that.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Tell me what you want.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
I'll do it for you morning, anything, George, no matter house.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Would you scratch my nose for me? A little?
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Thanks?
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Life ahead of you, and you'll never be able to
scratch yourself, Old George, I have to be beside you
when sitting there's no sensation at all, actually just a
few moments. It's the worst part of war, whole life
to live, and you'll never know what.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
It is to be.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Oh my dear, you know how miss it's making myself
snacks for the Late show marvelous. I'm the same thing,
don't understand you see when you got a bit early.
I stay up for the late show and the late
late show, and in between the two I get a
little hungry. Houses leave the crant. Sometimes I have buzzes
(15:03):
down the avenue on the cylinder. Heaven looks like there
isn't a bit of food in the place, And I
go to the refrigerator and open it in a whole
world of midnight snakes. Lights up there before my eyes,
carrying some green herring in wine, sauce, stunts and ends
of cheddar, mental olives, a spread quart of Katado blue cheese.
(15:31):
Go through over thing, look around and pick up one.
There are dishes, dishes with covers on them, the little
things that were lived up in the mount.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
One by one, take off the cover.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Yeah, two slices of roast, pea of their ring. Don't choose, No,
don't choose. Go to the bed box, half a loaf
of rye, three or four kinds of crackers, dungeon. Go
to the pantry, peanut butter, all kinds of chair. Maybe
(16:13):
during the day you bought some Sunday New brand. Maybe
mm have some tuna fish salmon with the sugar and
the flour and the breakfast cereals complex No, there weren't
any complexes today. Mm corn mm nice peach and refrigerator. Yes,
(16:38):
I don't remember. I run the refrigerator. And if there
are peaches, peaches small.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
And n No, George, there aren't any peaches, dear, but
there are straw m not nice big one.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
You would straw instead.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
I never knew it meant so much to you. I
never dreamed which.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Was only something?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Small?
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Smooth are the most important, Really, Darling, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Oh, you know those roses.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
George made it.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
You mustn't do that.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
You want to give me heart failure? George, you know
what could happen just one.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Of most worry about.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Promise me you won't do that again.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
I had to reach for my last handful of peanuts.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Man, you have more courage than most men.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
George.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
No tell me that my husband was a coward.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
I don't be much.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
You know perfectly well that most men would have just sat.
Men with less character would have hesitated.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
You.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
See that spit second was all other men would have
been less decisive and.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
In that time, But you you defied fate.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Oh, I go a week and side what I think
of it?
Speaker 3 (17:54):
George?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I really do.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
I, George, I love darling.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Please don't start that over again.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
You have to see the whole rest of your life.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
We'll both know that.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
You can't ever leave ever forever you're living there.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
It's perfectly clear you don't understand, you don't see.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
You all have to bring me my food and that'll
be a bolly. You'll have the vacuum around me. Well,
I still don't see why you have to get so
excited about it.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Can't come to bed.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
You show how extra blankets. I'll be warm here.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
And me, George, I'll let you get between the cold
cheeks alone.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Oh, part of blankets they love anymore? We haven't husband
and wife.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
We aren't love anymore.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Not another chance, never again, oh George, George. I love
most things, always a little like always save thing.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
I loved you mostly, George.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
If my fault, George.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Or my fault.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
If I'd been a little more understanding before, if I'd
listened to my intuition, just a word, it's just your foot,
we could have had one last chance, just one last
time in your arm.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
I didn't anyway, it doesn't and it's no use.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
A quarrels were made up there, George. The nights were
all soft and tender in your arm. I was a
princess at dawn, died by sleeping prince.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
It was marvelous, perfect.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
Wasn't it you?
Speaker 1 (19:34):
We were passionate.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Each day was an experience, wasn't it, George?
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Eight hours out of paradise. We were very happy, were we, George?
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:43):
We did things together, live, we lived, Everyone ended us.
We made life so exciting, never fought, never bickered like
other couples.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Were happy.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Oh yes, I said, were happy the night, George.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
How would I get through the long nights alone?
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Lies?
Speaker 1 (20:01):
We're all before us. So I'm thirty two, George, a girl,
a young girl, and you thirty four. Your life has
just begun.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Man, Yes, dear you sure I'm thirty four?
Speaker 5 (20:19):
No? Sure? My soulder than that fixed your mind too?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
No? No, no, really, well you know it is that
one day is like the next. Yeah. Then my neck.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
It's all over, George, Olive are finished. There's nothing left
for us.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
No, that's not true.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Much.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
We can still talk, Yes, yes, we can still talk.
That's right, George. We can still talk.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Talk to me, Darling.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
I can't just talk something to say?
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Of course, you think of something, you'll talk to me
won't you.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
George, promise me you.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Mustn't worry, Darling. I'll always be beside you whenever you
need me.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
I'll leave your side always. I'll never leave you for another.
I'll refuse all invitations. I won't let myself be tempted. George.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Watch, I can't you know? Focus straight ahead at the
time I can leaven.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Well, it's all God for that, George.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Don't see Yes, I can see you.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Aren't you afraid? George? Look, no, boys, not that.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Too, George, George talked, say something from last thing.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Don't leave me like this.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Tell me what it's like.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
What do you say?
Speaker 4 (21:57):
I've got to know.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
George, it's since bad not.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
That was atrophy adopted by Richard Rowland from a story
by J.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Anthony West. The part of.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
George was played by Bernard Mays and Pat Franklin was Marjorie.
Technical production was by Fred Sidon and Now good Night
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