October 31, 2025 • 27 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Vice presents Delisleigh, Sylvia, Courridge and Mormon Bird In Is
there anybody there by? William Ingram, Vincent Price, Hello and
welcome in Arcady Avenue.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
The houses have names as well as numbers, Changri, lah
Dun Roman more reposed, they best sum up the avenue's
air of nostalgic gentility. Still in the early thirties, all
is very discreetly orthodox, from the privacy of private hedge
and lace curtains at the front to the squares of handkerchief.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Size lawn at the back.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
In later years, however, professional name plates have appeared on
several of the front gate posts. Brigadoon now houses Chetney,
Chetney and Chetney Accountants. Higher up the avenue there is
an establishment for the fitting of ladies foundation garments. But
it is to the recently renamed Celestina that our attention
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must finally turn. The first thing one notices is that
its brass name plate is somewhat grimier than the others.
It pronounces Miss Griselda Thorpe to be medium and clairvoyant.
Consultations and ministrations strictly by appointment only every Wednesday afternoon,
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promptly at three of the clock mister Henry Jollett climbs
the gravel pass, presses the front door bell button and
anticipates at the going rate of one guinea procession. Yet
another preview of eternity.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Oh, my dear mister jollit, miss I trust I'm not
preva your.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
No, no, no, quite the contrary punctus the very second
as usual.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
Punctuality, my dear mister Jolly, the prerogative of kings in
my books whatever or anybody.
Speaker 7 (02:04):
Else's for that matter.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
Ed, yes, good, ever stop catching blue bottles, assist me with.
Speaker 7 (02:12):
The sacres pendant. Yes, to tell that.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
I I I can't quite single and thumbs fingers and
thumbs there, mister jobet drill as before, if you please
you there in the hot.
Speaker 7 (02:28):
Seat, thank you. I shall sit here with my back
to the window.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
Better for vibes and less chance of spiritual dispersion, don't
you know?
Speaker 7 (02:39):
And ed you ed?
Speaker 6 (02:42):
Where have you got to ye there? And being here
all along? Really, I I don't want you here, dear.
I want you there in the third chair. Of course, how.
Speaker 8 (02:54):
Is the leaning there?
Speaker 9 (02:56):
You can begin now, gidel, thank you dear.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
We will join hands in a circle of eternal light
and harmony. What you want is a gemantic woman for
Heaven's sake, hands harmony.
Speaker 9 (03:16):
The man's not a flack fish.
Speaker 7 (03:17):
Yes, because.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Peace, perfect peace, peace, perfect peace.
Speaker 7 (03:38):
Peace. It's starting, judge it.
Speaker 9 (03:44):
Mm hmm, you can always.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
Tell when it started?
Speaker 6 (03:51):
Are you there? Are you the O mighty uncle a
pack Emperor of the inkor beloved of the song less
spirit guide?
Speaker 8 (04:04):
You know I have had the pleasure, O mighty one,
use the only bodies, he said, Speak.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Speak the design Manco Kapak, Emperor of the inter he
loved of the Sun.
Speaker 10 (04:33):
God, living God in conist.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
God of the infinite.
Speaker 9 (04:37):
Of this is where I have breathing gafts heavier.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
You'll see, speak, Oh, Manco Kappak, Emperor of your people's spirit,
guide to less immortals bound in bonds of common clay.
Speaker 11 (05:01):
Above the land of Cusco. The condor fly high in
search of the lamb that has trained.
Speaker 9 (05:07):
Oh dear hour, do you fly fallow?
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Our storehouses empty?
Speaker 7 (05:15):
The living sea of.
Speaker 12 (05:16):
Provice has burnt itself to high.
Speaker 7 (05:20):
I don't like the flounder that talk in my people.
Speaker 11 (05:24):
Prepare clime o climb thy temple mountain, annoying to sacred
auctions with a human sacrifice.
Speaker 9 (05:40):
See, oh see.
Speaker 11 (05:42):
Where the living God of the orb, the chariot of
the Sun, things gold.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
Upon this holy place.
Speaker 10 (05:52):
Raise high the sacred blade.
Speaker 13 (05:55):
The time of the living Blood is upon us. The
time is now, Oh.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
Edie love days reading and passed, mister Johnick, the last
of those chocolate guy, go in, thank you.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
Oh well, heady to the top. I'll have it the ed.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
While you're on your feet, you can put Kapacks sacred
pendant back in the casket where it belongs. The beautiful,
isn't it, mister Jollick.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Beautiful, quite beautiful.
Speaker 7 (06:41):
I'd let you take a closer, but I don't think
the old boy would go for that.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
Even letting Edie get her chocolatesy little falls on it
is stretching the point. But at least in the family
if you'll take my reading, of course, oh at least
let me top you up.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
I beg a boy. Oh no, no, thank you, most kind, downhearted.
I don't blame you.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Three wednesdays in a row and still no contact with
the dear departed day not yet good.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
The Emperor did seem to have rather a lot on
his mind.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
Oh still, if he doesn't pull his finger out soon.
Speaker 14 (07:25):
You'll be asking for your money back, dear lady never
entered my mind.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
Odd, so uh don't have many famous do we eat
the old thing first?
Speaker 7 (07:34):
Back? And then if you're dear departed wife lent vild
quite well, old.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
Man ko kapack can usually be relied upon to winkle
them out, not that they be much persuading needed, mind you,
or put yourself in violens place light being told of
a long distance fronk all not even bothering to find
out who's on the other end.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I've never quite thought of it in that life.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
I wonder what light you had thought of it in,
mister Jolly.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
I noticed you've been admiring my sister's posterit, mister Johnet
h Oh, yes.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Yes, sir, I'd rather caught my eye.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
Splendid, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Edy?
Speaker 7 (08:22):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (08:22):
But it is with hand to hear.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Such an excellent likeness, give or take twenty years.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Of such fire such expression indeed, clear Patrick, don't you know?
Speaker 7 (08:35):
Really?
Speaker 6 (08:36):
Not the old rick, mister Johnet Simsbury Park Empire what
they call in the business a bum week. Not the
title role either, though that's clearly the impression my sister
wishes to do. The Tara geta trusted and rather boring
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handsmaiden to the queen. Don't you know she's the one
that brings that all rub a snake on At the end,
the trickiest part was getting the name right for Tatatita.
I still have nightmares painted by a fellow ar teeth.
It's joy better at painting than acting. But then everybody
in the company seemed better at something than acting.
Speaker 14 (09:19):
Of course I had realized your background was probably theatrical.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
Only probably my dear man sag understatement that the ham
of all hands always was, always will be why I
eventually had the good sense to give it up anyway,
twenty years on water under the bridge, and shure you
must have better things to do than go for pathetic
shortcomings of an aspiring Sarah Bernhart.
Speaker 15 (09:48):
How interesting, mister Johnett, How very interesting twenty years you
did say, twenty years give or take. Why do you
ask the paintings You're already wearing the sacred pendant?
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Am I er uh oh yes, yes, so I.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
Am oh sorry.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Griselda's feeling of being caught out did not escape either
Ed's or mister Jnads noticed. To begin with Griselda half
choked on her chocolate. The gestive then lapsed into a
granite like silence, which made the gentleman shift uneasily on
the edge of his seat, drop a spoon, and finally
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invent a previous engagement, and so beat a grateful retreat.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
What are you doing? What does it look as though
I'm doing?
Speaker 6 (10:42):
I am having myself agent, but you just had tea.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
They can fight it out between the I'm gonna have.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
Pagings, but there is a little early from where I'm standing,
it might already be a dance sight too late.
Speaker 7 (10:56):
Well, why the hell don't you join me? No? Doant
you suit yourself? Oh?
Speaker 6 (11:05):
Own dann Fault said, have cottoned on for the blight
along before.
Speaker 9 (11:08):
This, I must be losing my grip.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Was the time I'd have got his number before he
got his size tens over the front door mat.
Speaker 9 (11:17):
And you're referring to our mister Justice cholt Rawlett.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
I wonder how long it took him to dream that
one up, Or perhaps he's super dupa pulled it from
a hat, super duper superintendent. Dear what police has? Oh
God knows why I didn't tumble?
Speaker 7 (11:41):
What did he say?
Speaker 6 (11:41):
That ridiculous wife's name was again firel.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
It Violet Cholet.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Well have you ever heard anything more unlikely? Who in
their right mind would ever want to be supernaturally reunited
with someone called violent jolic mister Johnny, focus, focus, pudding
and pie.
Speaker 7 (12:04):
Not that she ever.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
Existed, but like like somebody opening the second half in
old time music Hall, Violet Julie and her performing love doves,
Osprey Feather of the tempt and her seven friends.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
Dropping bird muck all over a.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
Velveteen and Deamonte ball gown, not to mention half the stores.
Speaker 9 (12:26):
I'm still not sure I follow you, Griselda.
Speaker 7 (12:29):
Well, God knows how much.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
Clearer I can make it phony through and through? Ah,
mister Johney, for God's sake, stop calling him.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
That missus Jollet too?
Speaker 6 (12:42):
What else was he going to get himself over the
front door? But his r mister, well, the.
Speaker 7 (12:49):
Gentleman is what he pretends. I thought I put you
in the picture. He's either one of.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
The plain clothes Brigade or a hack a scrimm life
screaming from one of those dreadful Sunday rags, all turge
and through confession.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
But it doesn't look like a newspaper.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Man who's never seen a newspaper man. They're not all
trill be hap some dirty trinscoes, you know.
Speaker 7 (13:14):
I suppose they can't be still had it coming, had
what came on.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
The cards that one day I probably get myself splashed
right across the front page of one of the Sunday
dreadful real life expos A life after death racket, the
sinister true you know, the kind of thing, one of
those dreadful photographs they always fine to go with it,
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out of focus and slightly blurred around the edges.
Speaker 9 (13:47):
Grinsell's death.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
It it won't be true anyway, would it.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
So what the devil do you think I've been prattling on.
Speaker 7 (14:00):
Out the big Honey always knew it. So now it's
out of the bag.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
Good run for our money, our money, sister Edy, that's over.
Speaker 7 (14:15):
I don't believe you.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Then turn a blind eye again your option always been
your prerogative in the past, always through turn a blind
eye to whatever you can't take to you and Mumsie
and dear dead Papa. The whole ridiculous charade of Arcadia
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Avenue over done with.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
Coupple.
Speaker 9 (14:50):
Thank god you're bad.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
It true gift, tony as hell if you've made it all,
not all of it, not Manco capac. It had a
ring about it, not the kind of thing they'd be
likely to find in the telephone directory. But I heard
him your spirit voice.
Speaker 7 (15:14):
The first stabbis one, even if I do say so, myself.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
First tried it out when I was playing one of
the three witches in.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
The Scottish play. By the way, did you.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
Notice how your mister Johnick turned somersault when he heard
of my theatrical associations.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
It must always be a bit of a giveaway.
Speaker 9 (15:34):
I suppose he was admiring the pendant.
Speaker 7 (15:39):
Pendant to the.
Speaker 16 (15:40):
Emperor Manco Capa, who loved the income out of the
land of kristined guide and let the Mortels bound in
the bond of common play.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
Sorry of the.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
Bosh called bosh.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
God knows why even picked out that worthless bit of
scrap iron, Probably with the rest of a junk one
of those sixpenny trays.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
Hm, I see v No.
Speaker 17 (16:16):
Just a bit of a headache an early night. I'll
take one of my pills.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
Well, perhaps you too, well? What about your biddy Y's
koto no sancho?
Speaker 17 (16:29):
Dear, I don't feel much like it tonight, not to night.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
We had no way of knowing how long it was
before Griselda followed ed up the wooden hill. Jim had
always been her tipple. It not only relaxed her, it
gave her a warm feeling of righteous self pity. And
if she wasn't entitled to a large slice of that tonight,
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who the devil was, she could have been asleep for hours.
She might just have closed her eyes. She lay fully
closed on top of the bed. She was perfectly aware
of the distant town hall clock and that damn ginger
tom making its catterwauling next door.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Hm oh.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
She was cold.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Reached down to pull the heavy eider down about her,
but her hands lacked the strength, her intentions, the purpose.
Speaker 9 (17:35):
Hm.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
She was pinioned, but not only by sensical force, as
though by hypnotism behind her eyes, dragging her backwards through
time place to a scene she seemed to know, recognized
as in a dream, but a dream that was about
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to become Herbie.
Speaker 12 (18:01):
At heartens then, no sacred triple of the times, let
it be shown.
Speaker 10 (18:13):
For Harrington Lands that her denial of us, of.
Speaker 7 (18:18):
Our blessed sacred.
Speaker 10 (18:19):
Symbols shall be of it.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
Let the time beside.
Speaker 10 (18:27):
Praise Hime the sacred blade. The time of the letting
blood is upon us.
Speaker 7 (18:33):
The time is now.
Speaker 10 (18:36):
Now, God, the heart true seer removes.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
See where its.
Speaker 11 (18:54):
Even now, what's on the altar of our forefathers?
Speaker 10 (18:59):
Even now, now, now, even now.
Speaker 7 (19:08):
Now.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
It was always Edie who coped with the ritual of
early morning tea. She carefully avoid Griselda's pump pumped carpet slippers,
then set the cup gently down on her bedside table,
draw her curtains to exactly the wits she demanded, and
then shake her gently but firmly by her shoulder until
she got the first grunt of awakening and recognition.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
But no grunt came.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
It took Edie a long time before she finally would
accept that Griselda was dead.
Speaker 9 (19:57):
Ooh d, but it's not even Wednesday, mister Johnet.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
No, they are coming.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
I I don't know.
Speaker 9 (20:13):
Are you alone, of course, but only for a minute.
Speaker 17 (20:16):
Then it's a terrible mass. I'd offer you some tea,
but I'm not really up to it.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
I quite understand if there's anything nice.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
How did you find out about my sister, Miss Griselda's passing?
Speaker 3 (20:39):
A small paragraph in last evening's paper.
Speaker 9 (20:42):
Oh but only a small paragraph. Who say, Oh, I'm
not sure she'd have been too happy about that.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Notices, even the obituary kind, were very important to it.
Speaker 18 (20:56):
Bang our headlines, a photograph, a bit out of focus,
bird around the edges, was the way she put it.
Speaker 9 (21:08):
When I opened the door to you just now, I
quite expected popping camera.
Speaker 7 (21:13):
Balbs and a black Mariah m. I've almost hoped for it.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
I'm not sure I understand.
Speaker 9 (21:19):
There's really no need to keep up a charage, you know,
no need at all, now, mister jobbit, I see h
she saw through you all right, right from a very start. Edie,
she said, Edie, dear the man's an impostor joppit hum.
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Such a ridiculous name, isn't it?
Speaker 7 (21:43):
No?
Speaker 9 (21:44):
There never was a late missus jovit either, was it.
Speaker 7 (21:48):
No?
Speaker 5 (21:49):
She roared her head off at that, like somebody opening
the second half an old time musical.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
She roared her head Ah, how else could I have
got to see her?
Speaker 7 (22:05):
Hm?
Speaker 9 (22:07):
False pretenses? It was important to me, So why I
assume a false identity?
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Oh? No, the identity at least was my own.
Speaker 9 (22:17):
I do have a card, Professor, Henry Jalet.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
The letters will mean nothing to you.
Speaker 9 (22:23):
The National Institute of History.
Speaker 14 (22:26):
Ancient History South American to be exact, specializing in early
Incan cultures.
Speaker 9 (22:32):
Hm, it really means nothing to me, mister Jollet. No,
But so what it's worth, I'd like you to.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Explain where to begin.
Speaker 14 (22:46):
I'd never ventured into the spiritual world, but that didn't
prevent me thinking I'd heard it all before. The substitution
of an Incan emperor instead of your usual Indian chief
gave a certain twist. But I really had no intention
of coming until I found myself here go on. It
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wasn't until she summoned the emperor by name I I
started to take an interest.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Ah, yes, how great Manco Kataque.
Speaker 14 (23:17):
Not exactly the kind of name you find in the
telephone directory, is it.
Speaker 9 (23:22):
It's why she chose it, mister johny.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Made it up, if you like, Except that she didn't.
Speaker 14 (23:31):
Mancho kapak A predestined one founder of the Inca dynasty,
founder of the city called Gusco exactly.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
She could have researched it, of course, except that she
didn't know.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
She didn't.
Speaker 14 (23:48):
As I listened to her, there were many details of
the Emperor's fort city.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
At Cuscoe, that no amateur, that evil eye, after a
lifetime of study, and only now beginning to light on
a new world long dead, but threw her awakening again
with a vigor and intensity I could never have aspired to.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
And yet I doubt it right up until until the
very last time. In this room.
Speaker 14 (24:21):
We were having tea, and then out of the corner
of my eye, I spotted it, final proof of all.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
I've been so stupidly skeptical about had poetry.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
And about her neck, the Royal seal pendant of the Inkers.
Speaker 14 (24:37):
You'd seen it the thor only in the gloom at
a distance across the table.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
She'd refused to ever let me handle it.
Speaker 14 (24:44):
But suddenly here in her portrait twenty thirty years earlier,
a very confident artist that all the time in the
world to capture every detail.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Will you permit me to see it.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
Dump if you wish it?
Speaker 9 (25:14):
She was wearing it when I found it. The clasp
was broken, as though it had been torn from her neck.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
The autopsy was a necessary legal formality in view of
her age, excess weight, some kind of heart condition seemed
the lightliest beat in the antiseptic whitetness of their twentieth
century morgue. They made their preparations. There were no scars
on her body, not even an appendectomy. But when her
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cadaver was eventually opened, they found no heart, only the
severed aorta and the cavity where it.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Had once lain.
Speaker 7 (26:01):
Miss ed.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Was offered a fortune for her pendant, she refused.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
To sell it.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
It's now on permanent loan to mister Jollett's museum. She
often drops in to see it, and there's usually tea
and chocolate digestives in his office afterwards, and she's never
taken down that brass name plate on the gate post
consultations and ministrations strictly by appointment only. Whenever her finances
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get a bit tight, she consoles herself that she can
always take up where Griselda left off, and why not
she does have connections in high places.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
That was Is there anybody there? Starring Dilis Leigh as
Griselda Thorpe, Sylvia Coleridge Edy and Norman Bird mister Jollet,
The Price Affair was presented by Vincent Price, written by
William Ingram and directed by John Das
Vice presents Delisleigh, Sylvia, Courridge and Mormon Bird In Is
there anybody there by? William Ingram, Vincent Price, Hello and
welcome in Arcady Avenue.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
The houses have names as well as numbers, Changri, lah
Dun Roman more reposed, they best sum up the avenue's
air of nostalgic gentility. Still in the early thirties, all
is very discreetly orthodox, from the privacy of private hedge
and lace curtains at the front to the squares of handkerchief.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Size lawn at the back.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
In later years, however, professional name plates have appeared on
several of the front gate posts. Brigadoon now houses Chetney,
Chetney and Chetney Accountants. Higher up the avenue there is
an establishment for the fitting of ladies foundation garments. But
it is to the recently renamed Celestina that our attention
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must finally turn. The first thing one notices is that
its brass name plate is somewhat grimier than the others.
It pronounces Miss Griselda Thorpe to be medium and clairvoyant.
Consultations and ministrations strictly by appointment only every Wednesday afternoon,
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promptly at three of the clock mister Henry Jollett climbs
the gravel pass, presses the front door bell button and
anticipates at the going rate of one guinea procession. Yet
another preview of eternity.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Oh, my dear mister jollit, miss I trust I'm not
preva your.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
No, no, no, quite the contrary punctus the very second
as usual.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
Punctuality, my dear mister Jolly, the prerogative of kings in
my books whatever or anybody.
Speaker 7 (02:04):
Else's for that matter.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
Ed, yes, good, ever stop catching blue bottles, assist me with.
Speaker 7 (02:12):
The sacres pendant. Yes, to tell that.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
I I I can't quite single and thumbs fingers and
thumbs there, mister jobet drill as before, if you please
you there in the hot.
Speaker 7 (02:28):
Seat, thank you. I shall sit here with my back
to the window.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
Better for vibes and less chance of spiritual dispersion, don't
you know?
Speaker 7 (02:39):
And ed you ed?
Speaker 6 (02:42):
Where have you got to ye there? And being here
all along? Really, I I don't want you here, dear.
I want you there in the third chair. Of course, how.
Speaker 8 (02:54):
Is the leaning there?
Speaker 9 (02:56):
You can begin now, gidel, thank you dear.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
We will join hands in a circle of eternal light
and harmony. What you want is a gemantic woman for
Heaven's sake, hands harmony.
Speaker 9 (03:16):
The man's not a flack fish.
Speaker 7 (03:17):
Yes, because.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Peace, perfect peace, peace, perfect peace.
Speaker 7 (03:38):
Peace. It's starting, judge it.
Speaker 9 (03:44):
Mm hmm, you can always.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
Tell when it started?
Speaker 6 (03:51):
Are you there? Are you the O mighty uncle a
pack Emperor of the inkor beloved of the song less
spirit guide?
Speaker 8 (04:04):
You know I have had the pleasure, O mighty one,
use the only bodies, he said, Speak.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Speak the design Manco Kapak, Emperor of the inter he
loved of the Sun.
Speaker 10 (04:33):
God, living God in conist.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
God of the infinite.
Speaker 9 (04:37):
Of this is where I have breathing gafts heavier.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
You'll see, speak, Oh, Manco Kappak, Emperor of your people's spirit,
guide to less immortals bound in bonds of common clay.
Speaker 11 (05:01):
Above the land of Cusco. The condor fly high in
search of the lamb that has trained.
Speaker 9 (05:07):
Oh dear hour, do you fly fallow?
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Our storehouses empty?
Speaker 7 (05:15):
The living sea of.
Speaker 12 (05:16):
Provice has burnt itself to high.
Speaker 7 (05:20):
I don't like the flounder that talk in my people.
Speaker 11 (05:24):
Prepare clime o climb thy temple mountain, annoying to sacred
auctions with a human sacrifice.
Speaker 9 (05:40):
See, oh see.
Speaker 11 (05:42):
Where the living God of the orb, the chariot of
the Sun, things gold.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
Upon this holy place.
Speaker 10 (05:52):
Raise high the sacred blade.
Speaker 13 (05:55):
The time of the living Blood is upon us. The
time is now, Oh.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
Edie love days reading and passed, mister Johnick, the last
of those chocolate guy, go in, thank you.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
Oh well, heady to the top. I'll have it the ed.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
While you're on your feet, you can put Kapacks sacred
pendant back in the casket where it belongs. The beautiful,
isn't it, mister Jollick.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Beautiful, quite beautiful.
Speaker 7 (06:41):
I'd let you take a closer, but I don't think
the old boy would go for that.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
Even letting Edie get her chocolatesy little falls on it
is stretching the point. But at least in the family
if you'll take my reading, of course, oh at least
let me top you up.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
I beg a boy. Oh no, no, thank you, most kind, downhearted.
I don't blame you.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Three wednesdays in a row and still no contact with
the dear departed day not yet good.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
The Emperor did seem to have rather a lot on
his mind.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
Oh still, if he doesn't pull his finger out soon.
Speaker 14 (07:25):
You'll be asking for your money back, dear lady never
entered my mind.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
Odd, so uh don't have many famous do we eat
the old thing first?
Speaker 7 (07:34):
Back? And then if you're dear departed wife lent vild
quite well, old.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
Man ko kapack can usually be relied upon to winkle
them out, not that they be much persuading needed, mind you,
or put yourself in violens place light being told of
a long distance fronk all not even bothering to find
out who's on the other end.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I've never quite thought of it in that life.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
I wonder what light you had thought of it in,
mister Jolly.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
I noticed you've been admiring my sister's posterit, mister Johnet
h Oh, yes.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Yes, sir, I'd rather caught my eye.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
Splendid, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Edy?
Speaker 7 (08:22):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (08:22):
But it is with hand to hear.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Such an excellent likeness, give or take twenty years.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Of such fire such expression indeed, clear Patrick, don't you know?
Speaker 7 (08:35):
Really?
Speaker 6 (08:36):
Not the old rick, mister Johnet Simsbury Park Empire what
they call in the business a bum week. Not the
title role either, though that's clearly the impression my sister
wishes to do. The Tara geta trusted and rather boring
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handsmaiden to the queen. Don't you know she's the one
that brings that all rub a snake on At the end,
the trickiest part was getting the name right for Tatatita.
I still have nightmares painted by a fellow ar teeth.
It's joy better at painting than acting. But then everybody
in the company seemed better at something than acting.
Speaker 14 (09:19):
Of course I had realized your background was probably theatrical.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
Only probably my dear man sag understatement that the ham
of all hands always was, always will be why I
eventually had the good sense to give it up anyway,
twenty years on water under the bridge, and shure you
must have better things to do than go for pathetic
shortcomings of an aspiring Sarah Bernhart.
Speaker 15 (09:48):
How interesting, mister Johnett, How very interesting twenty years you
did say, twenty years give or take. Why do you
ask the paintings You're already wearing the sacred pendant?
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Am I er uh oh yes, yes, so I.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
Am oh sorry.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Griselda's feeling of being caught out did not escape either
Ed's or mister Jnads noticed. To begin with Griselda half
choked on her chocolate. The gestive then lapsed into a
granite like silence, which made the gentleman shift uneasily on
the edge of his seat, drop a spoon, and finally
(10:33):
invent a previous engagement, and so beat a grateful retreat.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
What are you doing? What does it look as though
I'm doing?
Speaker 6 (10:42):
I am having myself agent, but you just had tea.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
They can fight it out between the I'm gonna have.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
Pagings, but there is a little early from where I'm standing,
it might already be a dance sight too late.
Speaker 7 (10:56):
Well, why the hell don't you join me? No? Doant
you suit yourself? Oh?
Speaker 6 (11:05):
Own dann Fault said, have cottoned on for the blight
along before.
Speaker 9 (11:08):
This, I must be losing my grip.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Was the time I'd have got his number before he
got his size tens over the front door mat.
Speaker 9 (11:17):
And you're referring to our mister Justice cholt Rawlett.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
I wonder how long it took him to dream that
one up, Or perhaps he's super dupa pulled it from
a hat, super duper superintendent. Dear what police has? Oh
God knows why I didn't tumble?
Speaker 7 (11:41):
What did he say?
Speaker 6 (11:41):
That ridiculous wife's name was again firel.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
It Violet Cholet.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Well have you ever heard anything more unlikely? Who in
their right mind would ever want to be supernaturally reunited
with someone called violent jolic mister Johnny, focus, focus, pudding
and pie.
Speaker 7 (12:04):
Not that she ever.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
Existed, but like like somebody opening the second half in
old time music Hall, Violet Julie and her performing love doves,
Osprey Feather of the tempt and her seven friends.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
Dropping bird muck all over a.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
Velveteen and Deamonte ball gown, not to mention half the stores.
Speaker 9 (12:26):
I'm still not sure I follow you, Griselda.
Speaker 7 (12:29):
Well, God knows how much.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
Clearer I can make it phony through and through? Ah,
mister Johney, for God's sake, stop calling him.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
That missus Jollet too?
Speaker 6 (12:42):
What else was he going to get himself over the
front door? But his r mister, well, the.
Speaker 7 (12:49):
Gentleman is what he pretends. I thought I put you
in the picture. He's either one of.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
The plain clothes Brigade or a hack a scrimm life
screaming from one of those dreadful Sunday rags, all turge
and through confession.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
But it doesn't look like a newspaper.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Man who's never seen a newspaper man. They're not all
trill be hap some dirty trinscoes, you know.
Speaker 7 (13:14):
I suppose they can't be still had it coming, had
what came on.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
The cards that one day I probably get myself splashed
right across the front page of one of the Sunday
dreadful real life expos A life after death racket, the
sinister true you know, the kind of thing, one of
those dreadful photographs they always fine to go with it,
(13:42):
out of focus and slightly blurred around the edges.
Speaker 9 (13:47):
Grinsell's death.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
It it won't be true anyway, would it.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
So what the devil do you think I've been prattling on.
Speaker 7 (14:00):
Out the big Honey always knew it. So now it's
out of the bag.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
Good run for our money, our money, sister Edy, that's over.
Speaker 7 (14:15):
I don't believe you.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Then turn a blind eye again your option always been
your prerogative in the past, always through turn a blind
eye to whatever you can't take to you and Mumsie
and dear dead Papa. The whole ridiculous charade of Arcadia
(14:42):
Avenue over done with.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
Coupple.
Speaker 9 (14:50):
Thank god you're bad.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
It true gift, tony as hell if you've made it all,
not all of it, not Manco capac. It had a
ring about it, not the kind of thing they'd be
likely to find in the telephone directory. But I heard
him your spirit voice.
Speaker 7 (15:14):
The first stabbis one, even if I do say so, myself.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
First tried it out when I was playing one of
the three witches in.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
The Scottish play. By the way, did you.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
Notice how your mister Johnick turned somersault when he heard
of my theatrical associations.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
It must always be a bit of a giveaway.
Speaker 9 (15:34):
I suppose he was admiring the pendant.
Speaker 7 (15:39):
Pendant to the.
Speaker 16 (15:40):
Emperor Manco Capa, who loved the income out of the
land of kristined guide and let the Mortels bound in
the bond of common play.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
Sorry of the.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
Bosh called bosh.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
God knows why even picked out that worthless bit of
scrap iron, Probably with the rest of a junk one
of those sixpenny trays.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
Hm, I see v No.
Speaker 17 (16:16):
Just a bit of a headache an early night. I'll
take one of my pills.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
Well, perhaps you too, well? What about your biddy Y's
koto no sancho?
Speaker 17 (16:29):
Dear, I don't feel much like it tonight, not to night.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
We had no way of knowing how long it was
before Griselda followed ed up the wooden hill. Jim had
always been her tipple. It not only relaxed her, it
gave her a warm feeling of righteous self pity. And
if she wasn't entitled to a large slice of that tonight,
(17:00):
who the devil was, she could have been asleep for hours.
She might just have closed her eyes. She lay fully
closed on top of the bed. She was perfectly aware
of the distant town hall clock and that damn ginger
tom making its catterwauling next door.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Hm oh.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
She was cold.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Reached down to pull the heavy eider down about her,
but her hands lacked the strength, her intentions, the purpose.
Speaker 9 (17:35):
Hm.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
She was pinioned, but not only by sensical force, as
though by hypnotism behind her eyes, dragging her backwards through
time place to a scene she seemed to know, recognized
as in a dream, but a dream that was about
(17:59):
to become Herbie.
Speaker 12 (18:01):
At heartens then, no sacred triple of the times, let
it be shown.
Speaker 10 (18:13):
For Harrington Lands that her denial of us, of.
Speaker 7 (18:18):
Our blessed sacred.
Speaker 10 (18:19):
Symbols shall be of it.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
Let the time beside.
Speaker 10 (18:27):
Praise Hime the sacred blade. The time of the letting
blood is upon us.
Speaker 7 (18:33):
The time is now.
Speaker 10 (18:36):
Now, God, the heart true seer removes.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
See where its.
Speaker 11 (18:54):
Even now, what's on the altar of our forefathers?
Speaker 10 (18:59):
Even now, now, now, even now.
Speaker 7 (19:08):
Now.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
It was always Edie who coped with the ritual of
early morning tea. She carefully avoid Griselda's pump pumped carpet slippers,
then set the cup gently down on her bedside table,
draw her curtains to exactly the wits she demanded, and
then shake her gently but firmly by her shoulder until
she got the first grunt of awakening and recognition.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
But no grunt came.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
It took Edie a long time before she finally would
accept that Griselda was dead.
Speaker 9 (19:57):
Ooh d, but it's not even Wednesday, mister Johnet.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
No, they are coming.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
I I don't know.
Speaker 9 (20:13):
Are you alone, of course, but only for a minute.
Speaker 17 (20:16):
Then it's a terrible mass. I'd offer you some tea,
but I'm not really up to it.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
I quite understand if there's anything nice.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
How did you find out about my sister, Miss Griselda's passing?
Speaker 3 (20:39):
A small paragraph in last evening's paper.
Speaker 9 (20:42):
Oh but only a small paragraph. Who say, Oh, I'm
not sure she'd have been too happy about that.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Notices, even the obituary kind, were very important to it.
Speaker 18 (20:56):
Bang our headlines, a photograph, a bit out of focus,
bird around the edges, was the way she put it.
Speaker 9 (21:08):
When I opened the door to you just now, I
quite expected popping camera.
Speaker 7 (21:13):
Balbs and a black Mariah m. I've almost hoped for it.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
I'm not sure I understand.
Speaker 9 (21:19):
There's really no need to keep up a charage, you know,
no need at all, now, mister jobbit, I see h
she saw through you all right, right from a very start. Edie,
she said, Edie, dear the man's an impostor joppit hum.
(21:40):
Such a ridiculous name, isn't it?
Speaker 7 (21:43):
No?
Speaker 9 (21:44):
There never was a late missus jovit either, was it.
Speaker 7 (21:48):
No?
Speaker 5 (21:49):
She roared her head off at that, like somebody opening
the second half an old time musical.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
She roared her head Ah, how else could I have
got to see her?
Speaker 7 (22:05):
Hm?
Speaker 9 (22:07):
False pretenses? It was important to me, So why I
assume a false identity?
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Oh? No, the identity at least was my own.
Speaker 9 (22:17):
I do have a card, Professor, Henry Jalet.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
The letters will mean nothing to you.
Speaker 9 (22:23):
The National Institute of History.
Speaker 14 (22:26):
Ancient History South American to be exact, specializing in early
Incan cultures.
Speaker 9 (22:32):
Hm, it really means nothing to me, mister Jollet. No,
But so what it's worth, I'd like you to.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Explain where to begin.
Speaker 14 (22:46):
I'd never ventured into the spiritual world, but that didn't
prevent me thinking I'd heard it all before. The substitution
of an Incan emperor instead of your usual Indian chief
gave a certain twist. But I really had no intention
of coming until I found myself here go on. It
(23:07):
wasn't until she summoned the emperor by name I I
started to take an interest.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Ah, yes, how great Manco Kataque.
Speaker 14 (23:17):
Not exactly the kind of name you find in the
telephone directory, is it.
Speaker 9 (23:22):
It's why she chose it, mister johny.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Made it up, if you like, Except that she didn't.
Speaker 14 (23:31):
Mancho kapak A predestined one founder of the Inca dynasty,
founder of the city called Gusco exactly.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
She could have researched it, of course, except that she
didn't know.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
She didn't.
Speaker 14 (23:48):
As I listened to her, there were many details of
the Emperor's fort city.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
At Cuscoe, that no amateur, that evil eye, after a
lifetime of study, and only now beginning to light on
a new world long dead, but threw her awakening again
with a vigor and intensity I could never have aspired to.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
And yet I doubt it right up until until the
very last time. In this room.
Speaker 14 (24:21):
We were having tea, and then out of the corner
of my eye, I spotted it, final proof of all.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
I've been so stupidly skeptical about had poetry.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
And about her neck, the Royal seal pendant of the Inkers.
Speaker 14 (24:37):
You'd seen it the thor only in the gloom at
a distance across the table.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
She'd refused to ever let me handle it.
Speaker 14 (24:44):
But suddenly here in her portrait twenty thirty years earlier,
a very confident artist that all the time in the
world to capture every detail.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Will you permit me to see it.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
Dump if you wish it?
Speaker 9 (25:14):
She was wearing it when I found it. The clasp
was broken, as though it had been torn from her neck.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
The autopsy was a necessary legal formality in view of
her age, excess weight, some kind of heart condition seemed
the lightliest beat in the antiseptic whitetness of their twentieth
century morgue. They made their preparations. There were no scars
on her body, not even an appendectomy. But when her
(25:49):
cadaver was eventually opened, they found no heart, only the
severed aorta and the cavity where it.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Had once lain.
Speaker 7 (26:01):
Miss ed.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Was offered a fortune for her pendant, she refused.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
To sell it.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
It's now on permanent loan to mister Jollett's museum. She
often drops in to see it, and there's usually tea
and chocolate digestives in his office afterwards, and she's never
taken down that brass name plate on the gate post
consultations and ministrations strictly by appointment only. Whenever her finances
(26:28):
get a bit tight, she consoles herself that she can
always take up where Griselda left off, and why not
she does have connections in high places.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
That was Is there anybody there? Starring Dilis Leigh as
Griselda Thorpe, Sylvia Coleridge Edy and Norman Bird mister Jollet,
The Price Affair was presented by Vincent Price, written by
William Ingram and directed by John Das
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