August 17, 2025 • 30 mins
Fall of the Mausoleum Club (BBC) 88-10-01 (05) The T Machine
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
More savories. Yes well, and bring a board of toasted farms.
Very good, sir, this is no time for breads.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The sparrows is telling all ever sindensis, there is very
little time and two reports yet to deliver. Which of
you was sent to destroy doctor Julius Vann He was
the most dangerous of the five, and I'm most keen
to hear of his demise.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Well it was mister Tilly. He's late you surprise me.
Well if we persisted allowing common tailors.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
To draw our proudest tradition that this club should have
but two conditions of membership, and Tilly, although he be
common tailor, fulfills them both admirably, and the club's tradition
should be retailored to fit the tie.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
But how can you.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
These pettiest crobbles about your club's administration not diverting, but
given mister Tilley's absence, purely academic, you agreed you would
fulfill my five commissions, and in return the dossier of
your indiscretions would not be sent to inspect a Cadbury
of Scotland yard.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Since you have.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
Failed to keep your side of the bag in, it's
a new gate jake for you all I saw. Well, gentlemen,
seize it. Don't it away if you were thinking.
Speaker 6 (01:29):
Of impeding my passage in any way, don't forget I
still have.
Speaker 7 (01:35):
This.
Speaker 6 (01:37):
You are very wise. Goodbye, great paws till I'm not
late time.
Speaker 8 (02:07):
The Fall of the Mausoleum Club written by James Henry
and Ian Brown, starring Roy Kanear and Patrick Allen, Episode five,
The Tea Machine.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Well, gentlemen, I think you may resume your seats for
the time being.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Tilly, will you not sit down? I don't think I
can actually it all now trousers made of metal. They're
not trousers.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Hurry up, mister Tilly's sartorial taste has no bearing on
the report he must now deliver.
Speaker 7 (02:47):
Well.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
On the contrary, sir, it's bearing could not be heavier.
Then speak up and stop wasting time.
Speaker 7 (02:53):
Time. How ironic, but you'll learn my certain enough.
Speaker 9 (02:59):
A year ago set you set me the task of
destroying a noted mathematician, Dr Julius vent. And as the
day turned to weeks and the weeks turned to months,
I considered how best to seek out Dr VN and
dispatch him.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
And surely I did when his address, did you not
visit his house.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Oh yes, but he was out anyway.
Speaker 9 (03:18):
Time passed, and as the day set aside for this
meeting drew inexorably closer, my apprehension at not fulfilling my
mission turned to something like anxiety until the moment for
action could be put off no longer. So it was
yesterday morning at my bachelor lodgings in kensal Rise. I
resolved to strike while the iron was hot.
Speaker 10 (03:42):
Another kipper made a fair fat or some more of
bassing Bird's time.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I fear not a good lady, or I shall miss
the ege seventeen Whitehall Omnibus time and tide.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Time and tide.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
Good day.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Morning, yes, missus ball just a three minute day please? No, no,
I'll have a kipper. No no, no, I'll have an egge.
Speaker 10 (04:05):
Oh yes, then's pays no red, don't eat no eggs,
d kippers it is. You'll have nothing until you settle up,
mister Tilly.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
That's all for the better. I have no time for
breakfast today.
Speaker 10 (04:17):
Oh got some work at last?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Is it in a manner of speaking?
Speaker 9 (04:22):
Might?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Well?
Speaker 10 (04:25):
Here's a job you might put off till tomorrow. Here's
a card, fool you come by the third post this morning.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I'll put it in the rack for later.
Speaker 10 (04:34):
Dear mister Tilly, I wish to be measured for a
gentleman's evening suit with accessory pockets. Please come to my
house at two thirty this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Who's it from yours?
Speaker 10 (04:48):
Et cetera? Julius, then doctor, then to thirty this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
No, no, I meant, now what would you like for breakfast?
Speaker 9 (05:00):
The fish was baiting the angler. It was clear I
must act with all speed. Two choices lay before me,
careful thought or further consideration. I swiftly came to a decision.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yes, and don't come back to all the rents in
your end, right cheerio.
Speaker 9 (05:20):
The journey to doctor Venz Kensington Villa was painfully brief,
despite a detour to acquire some instruments suitable for the
task ahead. A pair of scissors, a number nineclas knives,
some pinking shears, bag of lead, bag of the raisers,
a Paddington Confident Major Fairfaxes Service revolver and a two
handed broads order picked.
Speaker 7 (05:40):
Up in some curio shop. Ah, this is the moment,
then happens. I'll never get away with it.
Speaker 9 (05:47):
He's bound to notice the broad sort now, as there's
no better go home.
Speaker 11 (05:56):
Ah, mister Tilley, you're late, I'm not, mister Tilly. Come
in please, and don't forget your tools. You'll be needing them,
won't you.
Speaker 12 (06:10):
Not?
Speaker 7 (06:11):
Necessarily?
Speaker 9 (06:12):
I followed doctor then into his parlor, a room filled
with all manner of queer and ingenious devices. These he
demonstrated with horrible relish as I nervously noted his corporeal dimensions.
Speaker 11 (06:25):
And see here, Tilly, an electrical apparatus for the mixing
of pastries, slicing of vegetables, and pulping of fruits.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Could you raise your arms, please, sir sixty inches?
Speaker 11 (06:41):
What's the matter, young man? You seem a little nervous.
One would think you were measuring me for my coffin.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
No, no, no, no, no, That's not what I'm doing
at all.
Speaker 11 (06:55):
While this device, thanks to the annhilation of air by
means of a vacuum, your color measurements will make the
carpet beater a thing of the past.
Speaker 12 (07:06):
Go on, why don't you huh? The tape is tight
around my neck. Now's your chance. You'll come down till
we can be frank. Even though we can't be friends,
I know full well of your grisly intent.
Speaker 13 (07:28):
What I know who you are, I know why you're here,
and I know all about the deadly confederacy you represent. Oh,
mister Tilly, you've dropped your tape measure.
Speaker 12 (07:41):
How do you know you will find out? Soon enough?
Speaker 14 (07:46):
Right?
Speaker 7 (07:48):
All right, you've forced my arm down? Where's that gun?
Speaker 11 (07:54):
I'm waiting, mister Tilly.
Speaker 9 (07:56):
Now now you shan't escape me.
Speaker 11 (08:00):
Of course, not Tilly.
Speaker 12 (08:01):
You are eager to do your job.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
Yeah, yeah, I'm very eager indeed.
Speaker 11 (08:06):
But before you do, I have one more machine to
show you.
Speaker 7 (08:11):
A machine.
Speaker 9 (08:12):
Yes, I call it the tea machine. All right, just one,
but be quick, no tricks.
Speaker 12 (08:22):
Of course, not come this way.
Speaker 9 (08:33):
A tea machine. Already I've developed a keen interest in
an apparatus for dispensing that most sustaining of beverages. And
still clutching major for Fairfaxes ser As Revolver. I was
guided down a dank, ill lit stairway. Surely another ten
minutes delay, We do no harm. We paused outside a
heavily bolted oat door.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Have changed my mind? I've got time for this.
Speaker 11 (08:57):
My dear mister Tilly. We have all all the time
in the world. Ah, please, step inside.
Speaker 9 (09:10):
I caught my breath as the scent of damp infested
my nostrils. The cellar was a temple to neglect, peeling paint,
broken floorboards, and a dreary rag of a curtain twitched
only once, but enough to betray the presence of rats.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
What a mess. Excuse the state of the room.
Speaker 11 (09:29):
I have been absent for some while.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Why have you ever brought me here?
Speaker 11 (09:35):
The reason, mister Tilley, is directly behind you.
Speaker 9 (09:38):
I spun around, fearing some burly cudgel brandishing confederate, but
instead saw a superb manifestation of doctor Vin's technology.
Speaker 11 (09:48):
I give you the tea machine.
Speaker 9 (09:51):
It resembled nothing so much as a small arc de
triumph constructed of enamel, metal and glass. Set into the
keyst of the arch was a prominent dial displaying the
figure one and seventy three. I immediately surmised that this
was the number of teas so far dispensed by this
wonderful contrivance. But who had been consuming the refreshing cups?
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Had the devilish doctor Ben been drugging innocent victims with
some mind sapping potion. I prayed my conjectures where I'm
found with.
Speaker 11 (10:22):
Come closer and tell me what you think. Well, I
watched this loose floorboard there that fixed it. You wouldn't
want me to trip over and injure myself, would you?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
No? No, no, no course? And I see ben stop
funny me? What's your jig?
Speaker 11 (10:47):
Just this tilly watch.
Speaker 9 (10:56):
So saying, he turned and ran, dashing full pelt through
the arm to the tea machine. There was a nervous
blue flash of flame as a dozen glass valves incandessed.
A silence followed, and of doctor ven there was no sign.
Fearing some secret escape route, I gathered my last ounce
of determination, closed my eyes, and plunged through the shimmering arch.
Speaker 11 (11:23):
Are you the.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
I'm coming, Grandpa?
Speaker 7 (11:43):
We have all the time I might have been killed
by that thing.
Speaker 9 (11:53):
At this point it became clear that the tea machine
was not a device for the dispensing of drinks at all.
No says that the machine, I was soon to find out,
was nothing less than a contrivance for projecting a traveler
body and soul forward into posterity.
Speaker 15 (12:08):
Good Lord, And of course we scientists use the letter
T in our arithmetical deliberations to denote the dimensional time.
Speaker 9 (12:16):
Indeed, and as I passed through Vent's machine. I felt
as if my whole life were passing before my eyes,
even those years had not yet seen.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
When I emerged from the arch, the room.
Speaker 9 (12:27):
Was exactly the same as it had been a moment before.
There was nothing in the least remarkable, saving one important
respect of Dr Ven my teasing quarry.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
There was no sign.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
There being no other exit.
Speaker 9 (12:40):
I quickly remounted the cellar steps and pushed my way
through the open door, to be greeted by the first
of many perturbations. In a few minutes I'd been in
the cellar. Doctor Ven's house had been completely removed and
replaced with a colonnaded hall of colossal proportions, not unlikely.
Speaker 7 (12:59):
South Kensington Museum.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
But this is madness. Who are all you people? Hello? Hello?
What is this place?
Speaker 16 (13:08):
Where's doctor Ben's? Has Doctor Ben? What business have you
with him?
Speaker 9 (13:23):
Alerts around the crowded hall. Drunk with confusion, it seemed
I'd stumbled into a gallery of statues, full sized figures
molded in shining reddish metal. So lifelike was each portraiture
that one might almost think one was in the presence
of its subject. In fact, as I paused before the
perfect replica of a young man. Did I not see
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his hand move ever so slightly? Bending closer? I learned
the truth there from the tiniest of tiny holes in
the statue's hand, writhing, spiraling, groping, came a bloated white baggot.
Speaker 8 (13:57):
Scam have you.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
That's Let go of me and mind your manners.
Speaker 15 (14:03):
I'm not your grandpa, totally sorry, but you are.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
We managed to decor the police, but only for a while.
That's where its horror. We've already seen through finish discussions. Damn,
mind your language.
Speaker 11 (14:18):
Come.
Speaker 9 (14:20):
Before I could find the revolver, my abductors had thrown
a blanket over my head and bundled me out of
the building. I am unable therefore to draw more than
the haziest sketches of the journey that followed.
Speaker 17 (14:33):
Come on, Grandpa, this is the automotive from Anade.
Speaker 18 (14:39):
It's the way most people travel about thanks to the
great Doctor.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Then there's a network of them all in London. My
brothers and I helped them here. Step on to the
next one.
Speaker 10 (14:50):
Be careful, it's somewhat fast.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Now. When we reach the innermost bells, we'll be traveling
and fall. Twenty eight mile. Our good.
Speaker 18 (15:01):
This is Mark March. Not much further, Grandpa, Then you'll
be safe enough for the time being.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
So I am immensely pleased to hear it that. Well,
you can't just stop calling me grandpa. I'm no older
than you are, but you are our grandfather. Grandpa.
Speaker 18 (15:15):
This is the seventh of August nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 15 (15:18):
Come again, the seventh of August nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 18 (15:22):
Remember that it's important.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Here we are Regis Park, sip Lively.
Speaker 9 (15:31):
The region's park of tomorrow, gentlemen, is not the broad,
salubrious garden we know today. As we emerge from beneath
the streets, I beheld a dismal array of cramped, squalid tenements.
All that was likely to flourish here with the dark
blossoms of crime and cholera.
Speaker 18 (15:47):
This is us glossed gay towers.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
So it's very tall.
Speaker 9 (15:53):
You sure it's safe, safe as houses?
Speaker 18 (15:59):
Oh dear, there goes that lodge.
Speaker 9 (16:02):
Yes, it's the tunneling that does it weakens the foundation's tunneling.
Speaker 18 (16:06):
Yes, the automotive promenade we've just been on is one
of many, each drug by a rival tunneling company.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Come on, let's go.
Speaker 8 (16:15):
On up.
Speaker 18 (16:25):
Here we are sent.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Call that an elevator.
Speaker 15 (16:28):
No, it's a basket on a piece of rope.
Speaker 18 (16:30):
The builders run out of money.
Speaker 15 (16:32):
I might have been killed by that thing. Well, you
most certainly would have been killed without it.
Speaker 18 (16:35):
They knows you've escaped, and his men will be scouring
the city for you.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Now, look, who are you really? What's going on? I'll
make it as simp as our cat.
Speaker 18 (16:46):
I am Bertie, and I am honest.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
But who are you? We are your daughter's children. I
have no daughter.
Speaker 18 (16:55):
Well make sure that you do, for she has to
bring us to expect your arrival on this very day,
the seventh of August nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 15 (17:06):
If you don't, we wouldn't have been there to save
your life. Well, you see, then, is an important man
in society. Most of the marbles you see around you
today were developed from his inventions.
Speaker 18 (17:17):
But, as our mother explained to us from an early age,
the truth foundation for Ben's success was his ability to
travel in time.
Speaker 15 (17:26):
Exactly, the tea machine allowed him to tamper with our
past and your future, so contriving an unfair advantage for
his own inventions.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Hell, have you ever.
Speaker 18 (17:35):
Heard of a man called Marconi. No nor Salue. Ever,
he was just one of the score of geniuses who
were murdered so that they might prosper.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Do you follow so far?
Speaker 7 (17:50):
Good? Wo?
Speaker 9 (17:52):
What someone's coming?
Speaker 1 (17:57):
It's Freddy for another grandchild, that's right? Or have brought
up some carols thing?
Speaker 15 (18:02):
No, when you emerge from the t machine then had
arranged for the police to arrest you and have you
done away with.
Speaker 18 (18:09):
So will use this photograph of yourself?
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Yes, don't forget to have that taken.
Speaker 18 (18:14):
Disguise to our brother Freddie as you his grandfather.
Speaker 15 (18:18):
Ked as decoy for the police while we bundled you off.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Here said how clever. Well it was your idea. I see,
we'll forget it.
Speaker 18 (18:26):
How will you?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
No?
Speaker 9 (18:27):
Look no, I really am most grateful, but if I
can rely on your help just once more, I'd like
to return to my own time.
Speaker 15 (18:35):
Not until you have killed Vin. We made it very
simple for you.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
You've got major Fairfactor's revolver. Yes, yes, then you shoot
then and escape to the past.
Speaker 9 (18:45):
Well, I don't know I'm going into quite like it. Here,
surrounded by my family.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Were assured this is him, I thought, Mum said he
was a boxing chance. Look, we're not asking much of you.
Speaker 15 (18:57):
Simply to repay the risks we've already taken on your bee.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
I'll never be able to find him.
Speaker 18 (19:02):
See here the court circular says that doctor Julius Ben
will attend the performance of the Royal X Ray Ballet
at Cotton Garden tonight, so so you'll be there too.
Here's your ticket.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Boy, you are two bogies down there knocking on doors.
You better clear out ground, Pa, But you.
Speaker 18 (19:22):
Say no, no, no, you'll be safer on the move.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
From where will I go with me? I'll show you
the sights? Give in a basket? What what's the day?
In the seventh of August nineteen seventy three? Good?
Speaker 9 (19:41):
The afternoon passed all too quickly, and at four minutes
to eight I was in the newly refurbished crush bar
of the Royal x Ray Ballet.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
House, Covent Garden. Haven't we better go in? Burphy?
Speaker 7 (19:53):
The valley's about this? Darne?
Speaker 1 (19:54):
No, damn it then? Hasn't turned up? Hud who we
might as well come home?
Speaker 15 (20:01):
I ask you, Grandpa, You different old folk, don't you see?
Ven As obviously sniffed a jig.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
There he is.
Speaker 15 (20:08):
Officers, Oh no, the briefs off is the bogies go wrong?
Speaker 11 (20:13):
But surely not, I mean, arrestless man, he is a
threat to the empire.
Speaker 9 (20:24):
Now look here, doctor, for all this unpleasantness, yes there is.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
I don't want to kill you. I mean I did,
but now of them came mine.
Speaker 11 (20:35):
It's too lately, seventy five years.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Too late, seventy five years. Listen, couldn't we come to
some agreement.
Speaker 11 (20:45):
Mister Tilly, I hardly think you are in a position
to bargain.
Speaker 9 (20:50):
Much as ours love to admit it. Dr Ben was
quite correct. You see, gentlemen, my position was suspended by
my wrists twenty feet above a girl danic bath of
sol fate of copper, having previously been painted with a
solution of nitrate of silver.
Speaker 11 (21:04):
Now, mister Tilley, it is my turn to fit you
for a suit, eh, a suit which will last you
the rest of your life.
Speaker 9 (21:17):
As I was lowered slowly into the bubbling bat below,
Dr Ven courteously explained the result of this fascinating chemical process,
I was to be coated in a copper sheath of
exceptional strength and durability.
Speaker 11 (21:33):
Don't feel singled out. We treat all our criminals like this.
Noar days.
Speaker 9 (21:39):
As the solution reached my knees, I remembered with a
shudder the rank upon copper rank of perfect statues in
that vast gallery where I first made my entrance into
this fearful age. Then, as a solution reached my waists.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Only half tips. Come back, you cowards?
Speaker 18 (22:10):
Are you time?
Speaker 9 (22:11):
Yes, but only just.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I'm getting into the wall, preparing tunnel your.
Speaker 19 (22:20):
Lord, look at him, yesses what you must escaped from
here and killed Ben?
Speaker 1 (22:34):
You must be joking. I'm jumping off. Watch come back.
Speaker 9 (22:48):
I made what haste I could, given my newly bicopied condition,
and resting an archway, I found myself in the very
hall of statues where my nightmay had begun. You may imagine, gentlemen,
my joy, for this meant that then seller and the
tea machine it contained were directly below. There was the door,
and yes it was unlocked. The faith were with me,
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I thought then. But as I stood once more before
the miraculous tea machine, I realized why my entry had
been so simple.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
Hello there to me.
Speaker 11 (23:27):
Yes, I got here before you, and so did I,
and so did I.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
And so But who are you? How can this be?
Which one of you is then.
Speaker 11 (23:42):
I am Julius then, from five minutes into the future.
Speaker 17 (23:45):
I am Julius Fenn from fifteen minutes into the future,
and I am Julius then from forty years into the future.
Speaker 20 (23:55):
Oh yes, well, I don't think we'll be needing you.
Speaker 17 (23:58):
Oh all right, But but you don't mind if I
watch still?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
It would be a pleasure, sir. It would be nice
to know that forty years.
Speaker 12 (24:07):
From now, I will once again savor the moment of
Tilly's dismemberment.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Ceasing.
Speaker 20 (24:21):
He I'd have a time, don't you see till me?
The very fact that we exist five minutes.
Speaker 17 (24:30):
Fifteen minutes, and forty years into their future proves.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
That your mission to destroy me will end in failure.
Speaker 17 (24:39):
Indeed, I am destined to survive, to be a very,
very old What happened? He simply vanished into thin I
know what's happening. We're all ceasing to yes, ceasing to exist.
One but last, you to me.
Speaker 11 (25:00):
Somehow, soon, in your lundering stupidity, you will.
Speaker 7 (25:04):
Succeed in killing me me. I'm sure I wouldn't. I'm
not finished yet.
Speaker 12 (25:12):
I have the power to start afresh from the beginning.
Speaker 9 (25:17):
So saying he set the controls of the tea machine
for the very afternoon. I called it his villa in Kensington,
a few minutes before I was first projected into that
hellish future. Just think, gentlemen, this man had the power
to go back and undo his errors.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Who would not use such a power once more?
Speaker 9 (25:36):
Then vanished through the arch with that familiar blue flicker,
and I, seizing my chnswer, returning to the saner times,
followed him after a minute's hesitation, still.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Trapped in the future. Now I'm here here.
Speaker 20 (25:53):
Beware of your life, you care the rest of your life,
of your life.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
It's too late.
Speaker 11 (26:04):
Seventy five years too late. Fifty minutes five mites.
Speaker 9 (26:23):
I appeared in then cellar, where everything was as it
was when I first left, but for one thing. There
sprawled on the floor on my feet was the twisted
corpse of doctor Ben. So hastily we ran from the
arch that he tripped headlong on a board sticking out
from the rotting floor and broke any scientific neck. As
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I bent over doctor Fen to assure myself of his decease,
I was startled to hear voices and footsteps descending the
stair to the cellar. For the first time in my life.
I made a speedy decision and concealed myself and the
late doctor Ben behind the dreary rag of curtain I'd
noticed earlier.
Speaker 13 (27:07):
My dear, we have all the time in the world.
Speaker 9 (27:15):
I held my breath as two familiar figures entered the room.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
What a mess?
Speaker 13 (27:20):
Excuse the state of the room.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Why have you ever brought me here for the reason
of statility.
Speaker 7 (27:33):
The tea machine.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Come closer and tell me what you think.
Speaker 14 (27:38):
Well, loose fohard, you wouldn't want me to trip over
as angel myself.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Stop to me watch.
Speaker 9 (28:07):
I waited a moment. Then, true to history, my former
self followed the older man through the incandescing arch. As
soon as it was quiet, I emerged from the curtain
and went home. But before I did, I took the
precaution of destroying that paradoxical invention. And so it was, gentlemen,
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that all then's willpower was turned into one big Won't.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
That's the queerest one? Yet?
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Yes too, crab by half, I for one, do not
believe a word of it.
Speaker 9 (28:41):
Well look here, sir, you have my legs as copper
bottomed evidence, and the body of doctor Ven which, thanks
to an anonymous postcard will be discovered by the Constabulary
this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
If you destroyed the machine where it exists in the future,
that your future self may affect his return to the presence.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
It doesn't matter. I've already returned, haven't.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
I Yes, you have, But but you haven't because you'd
only just entered the machine, so you're still trapped in
the future.
Speaker 9 (29:18):
No not, I'm here not to think about it, gentlemen.
More savories felt very good.
Speaker 8 (29:34):
The Fall of the Mausoleum Club episode five. The Tea
Machine was written by Ian Brown and James Henry, starring
Patrick Allen, John Baddeley, Patty Coombs, Peter Howell, Polly James
Roy Keanear, Michael Ripper and John Samson. Music by Max Harris,
Special effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. The producer was
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Paul Spencer.
More savories. Yes well, and bring a board of toasted farms.
Very good, sir, this is no time for breads.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The sparrows is telling all ever sindensis, there is very
little time and two reports yet to deliver. Which of
you was sent to destroy doctor Julius Vann He was
the most dangerous of the five, and I'm most keen
to hear of his demise.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Well it was mister Tilly. He's late you surprise me.
Well if we persisted allowing common tailors.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
To draw our proudest tradition that this club should have
but two conditions of membership, and Tilly, although he be
common tailor, fulfills them both admirably, and the club's tradition
should be retailored to fit the tie.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
But how can you.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
These pettiest crobbles about your club's administration not diverting, but
given mister Tilley's absence, purely academic, you agreed you would
fulfill my five commissions, and in return the dossier of
your indiscretions would not be sent to inspect a Cadbury
of Scotland yard.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Since you have.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
Failed to keep your side of the bag in, it's
a new gate jake for you all I saw. Well, gentlemen,
seize it. Don't it away if you were thinking.
Speaker 6 (01:29):
Of impeding my passage in any way, don't forget I
still have.
Speaker 7 (01:35):
This.
Speaker 6 (01:37):
You are very wise. Goodbye, great paws till I'm not
late time.
Speaker 8 (02:07):
The Fall of the Mausoleum Club written by James Henry
and Ian Brown, starring Roy Kanear and Patrick Allen, Episode five,
The Tea Machine.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Well, gentlemen, I think you may resume your seats for
the time being.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Tilly, will you not sit down? I don't think I
can actually it all now trousers made of metal. They're
not trousers.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Hurry up, mister Tilly's sartorial taste has no bearing on
the report he must now deliver.
Speaker 7 (02:47):
Well.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
On the contrary, sir, it's bearing could not be heavier.
Then speak up and stop wasting time.
Speaker 7 (02:53):
Time. How ironic, but you'll learn my certain enough.
Speaker 9 (02:59):
A year ago set you set me the task of
destroying a noted mathematician, Dr Julius vent. And as the
day turned to weeks and the weeks turned to months,
I considered how best to seek out Dr VN and
dispatch him.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
And surely I did when his address, did you not
visit his house.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Oh yes, but he was out anyway.
Speaker 9 (03:18):
Time passed, and as the day set aside for this
meeting drew inexorably closer, my apprehension at not fulfilling my
mission turned to something like anxiety until the moment for
action could be put off no longer. So it was
yesterday morning at my bachelor lodgings in kensal Rise. I
resolved to strike while the iron was hot.
Speaker 10 (03:42):
Another kipper made a fair fat or some more of
bassing Bird's time.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I fear not a good lady, or I shall miss
the ege seventeen Whitehall Omnibus time and tide.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Time and tide.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
Good day.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Morning, yes, missus ball just a three minute day please? No, no,
I'll have a kipper. No no, no, I'll have an egge.
Speaker 10 (04:05):
Oh yes, then's pays no red, don't eat no eggs,
d kippers it is. You'll have nothing until you settle up,
mister Tilly.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
That's all for the better. I have no time for
breakfast today.
Speaker 10 (04:17):
Oh got some work at last?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Is it in a manner of speaking?
Speaker 9 (04:22):
Might?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Well?
Speaker 10 (04:25):
Here's a job you might put off till tomorrow. Here's
a card, fool you come by the third post this morning.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I'll put it in the rack for later.
Speaker 10 (04:34):
Dear mister Tilly, I wish to be measured for a
gentleman's evening suit with accessory pockets. Please come to my
house at two thirty this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Who's it from yours?
Speaker 10 (04:48):
Et cetera? Julius, then doctor, then to thirty this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
No, no, I meant, now what would you like for breakfast?
Speaker 9 (05:00):
The fish was baiting the angler. It was clear I
must act with all speed. Two choices lay before me,
careful thought or further consideration. I swiftly came to a decision.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yes, and don't come back to all the rents in
your end, right cheerio.
Speaker 9 (05:20):
The journey to doctor Venz Kensington Villa was painfully brief,
despite a detour to acquire some instruments suitable for the
task ahead. A pair of scissors, a number nineclas knives,
some pinking shears, bag of lead, bag of the raisers,
a Paddington Confident Major Fairfaxes Service revolver and a two
handed broads order picked.
Speaker 7 (05:40):
Up in some curio shop. Ah, this is the moment,
then happens. I'll never get away with it.
Speaker 9 (05:47):
He's bound to notice the broad sort now, as there's
no better go home.
Speaker 11 (05:56):
Ah, mister Tilley, you're late, I'm not, mister Tilly. Come
in please, and don't forget your tools. You'll be needing them,
won't you.
Speaker 12 (06:10):
Not?
Speaker 7 (06:11):
Necessarily?
Speaker 9 (06:12):
I followed doctor then into his parlor, a room filled
with all manner of queer and ingenious devices. These he
demonstrated with horrible relish as I nervously noted his corporeal dimensions.
Speaker 11 (06:25):
And see here, Tilly, an electrical apparatus for the mixing
of pastries, slicing of vegetables, and pulping of fruits.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Could you raise your arms, please, sir sixty inches?
Speaker 11 (06:41):
What's the matter, young man? You seem a little nervous.
One would think you were measuring me for my coffin.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
No, no, no, no, no, That's not what I'm doing
at all.
Speaker 11 (06:55):
While this device, thanks to the annhilation of air by
means of a vacuum, your color measurements will make the
carpet beater a thing of the past.
Speaker 12 (07:06):
Go on, why don't you huh? The tape is tight
around my neck. Now's your chance. You'll come down till
we can be frank. Even though we can't be friends,
I know full well of your grisly intent.
Speaker 13 (07:28):
What I know who you are, I know why you're here,
and I know all about the deadly confederacy you represent. Oh,
mister Tilly, you've dropped your tape measure.
Speaker 12 (07:41):
How do you know you will find out? Soon enough?
Speaker 14 (07:46):
Right?
Speaker 7 (07:48):
All right, you've forced my arm down? Where's that gun?
Speaker 11 (07:54):
I'm waiting, mister Tilly.
Speaker 9 (07:56):
Now now you shan't escape me.
Speaker 11 (08:00):
Of course, not Tilly.
Speaker 12 (08:01):
You are eager to do your job.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
Yeah, yeah, I'm very eager indeed.
Speaker 11 (08:06):
But before you do, I have one more machine to
show you.
Speaker 7 (08:11):
A machine.
Speaker 9 (08:12):
Yes, I call it the tea machine. All right, just one,
but be quick, no tricks.
Speaker 12 (08:22):
Of course, not come this way.
Speaker 9 (08:33):
A tea machine. Already I've developed a keen interest in
an apparatus for dispensing that most sustaining of beverages. And
still clutching major for Fairfaxes ser As Revolver. I was
guided down a dank, ill lit stairway. Surely another ten
minutes delay, We do no harm. We paused outside a
heavily bolted oat door.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Have changed my mind? I've got time for this.
Speaker 11 (08:57):
My dear mister Tilly. We have all all the time
in the world. Ah, please, step inside.
Speaker 9 (09:10):
I caught my breath as the scent of damp infested
my nostrils. The cellar was a temple to neglect, peeling paint,
broken floorboards, and a dreary rag of a curtain twitched
only once, but enough to betray the presence of rats.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
What a mess. Excuse the state of the room.
Speaker 11 (09:29):
I have been absent for some while.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Why have you ever brought me here?
Speaker 11 (09:35):
The reason, mister Tilley, is directly behind you.
Speaker 9 (09:38):
I spun around, fearing some burly cudgel brandishing confederate, but
instead saw a superb manifestation of doctor Vin's technology.
Speaker 11 (09:48):
I give you the tea machine.
Speaker 9 (09:51):
It resembled nothing so much as a small arc de
triumph constructed of enamel, metal and glass. Set into the
keyst of the arch was a prominent dial displaying the
figure one and seventy three. I immediately surmised that this
was the number of teas so far dispensed by this
wonderful contrivance. But who had been consuming the refreshing cups?
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Had the devilish doctor Ben been drugging innocent victims with
some mind sapping potion. I prayed my conjectures where I'm
found with.
Speaker 11 (10:22):
Come closer and tell me what you think. Well, I
watched this loose floorboard there that fixed it. You wouldn't
want me to trip over and injure myself, would you?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
No? No, no, no course? And I see ben stop
funny me? What's your jig?
Speaker 11 (10:47):
Just this tilly watch.
Speaker 9 (10:56):
So saying, he turned and ran, dashing full pelt through
the arm to the tea machine. There was a nervous
blue flash of flame as a dozen glass valves incandessed.
A silence followed, and of doctor ven there was no sign.
Fearing some secret escape route, I gathered my last ounce
of determination, closed my eyes, and plunged through the shimmering arch.
Speaker 11 (11:23):
Are you the.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
I'm coming, Grandpa?
Speaker 7 (11:43):
We have all the time I might have been killed
by that thing.
Speaker 9 (11:53):
At this point it became clear that the tea machine
was not a device for the dispensing of drinks at all.
No says that the machine, I was soon to find out,
was nothing less than a contrivance for projecting a traveler
body and soul forward into posterity.
Speaker 15 (12:08):
Good Lord, And of course we scientists use the letter
T in our arithmetical deliberations to denote the dimensional time.
Speaker 9 (12:16):
Indeed, and as I passed through Vent's machine. I felt
as if my whole life were passing before my eyes,
even those years had not yet seen.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
When I emerged from the arch, the room.
Speaker 9 (12:27):
Was exactly the same as it had been a moment before.
There was nothing in the least remarkable, saving one important
respect of Dr Ven my teasing quarry.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
There was no sign.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
There being no other exit.
Speaker 9 (12:40):
I quickly remounted the cellar steps and pushed my way
through the open door, to be greeted by the first
of many perturbations. In a few minutes I'd been in
the cellar. Doctor Ven's house had been completely removed and
replaced with a colonnaded hall of colossal proportions, not unlikely.
Speaker 7 (12:59):
South Kensington Museum.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
But this is madness. Who are all you people? Hello? Hello?
What is this place?
Speaker 16 (13:08):
Where's doctor Ben's? Has Doctor Ben? What business have you
with him?
Speaker 9 (13:23):
Alerts around the crowded hall. Drunk with confusion, it seemed
I'd stumbled into a gallery of statues, full sized figures
molded in shining reddish metal. So lifelike was each portraiture
that one might almost think one was in the presence
of its subject. In fact, as I paused before the
perfect replica of a young man. Did I not see
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his hand move ever so slightly? Bending closer? I learned
the truth there from the tiniest of tiny holes in
the statue's hand, writhing, spiraling, groping, came a bloated white baggot.
Speaker 8 (13:57):
Scam have you.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
That's Let go of me and mind your manners.
Speaker 15 (14:03):
I'm not your grandpa, totally sorry, but you are.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
We managed to decor the police, but only for a while.
That's where its horror. We've already seen through finish discussions. Damn,
mind your language.
Speaker 11 (14:18):
Come.
Speaker 9 (14:20):
Before I could find the revolver, my abductors had thrown
a blanket over my head and bundled me out of
the building. I am unable therefore to draw more than
the haziest sketches of the journey that followed.
Speaker 17 (14:33):
Come on, Grandpa, this is the automotive from Anade.
Speaker 18 (14:39):
It's the way most people travel about thanks to the
great Doctor.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Then there's a network of them all in London. My
brothers and I helped them here. Step on to the
next one.
Speaker 10 (14:50):
Be careful, it's somewhat fast.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Now. When we reach the innermost bells, we'll be traveling
and fall. Twenty eight mile. Our good.
Speaker 18 (15:01):
This is Mark March. Not much further, Grandpa, Then you'll
be safe enough for the time being.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
So I am immensely pleased to hear it that. Well,
you can't just stop calling me grandpa. I'm no older
than you are, but you are our grandfather. Grandpa.
Speaker 18 (15:15):
This is the seventh of August nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 15 (15:18):
Come again, the seventh of August nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 18 (15:22):
Remember that it's important.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Here we are Regis Park, sip Lively.
Speaker 9 (15:31):
The region's park of tomorrow, gentlemen, is not the broad,
salubrious garden we know today. As we emerge from beneath
the streets, I beheld a dismal array of cramped, squalid tenements.
All that was likely to flourish here with the dark
blossoms of crime and cholera.
Speaker 18 (15:47):
This is us glossed gay towers.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
So it's very tall.
Speaker 9 (15:53):
You sure it's safe, safe as houses?
Speaker 18 (15:59):
Oh dear, there goes that lodge.
Speaker 9 (16:02):
Yes, it's the tunneling that does it weakens the foundation's tunneling.
Speaker 18 (16:06):
Yes, the automotive promenade we've just been on is one
of many, each drug by a rival tunneling company.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Come on, let's go.
Speaker 8 (16:15):
On up.
Speaker 18 (16:25):
Here we are sent.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Call that an elevator.
Speaker 15 (16:28):
No, it's a basket on a piece of rope.
Speaker 18 (16:30):
The builders run out of money.
Speaker 15 (16:32):
I might have been killed by that thing. Well, you
most certainly would have been killed without it.
Speaker 18 (16:35):
They knows you've escaped, and his men will be scouring
the city for you.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Now, look, who are you really? What's going on? I'll
make it as simp as our cat.
Speaker 18 (16:46):
I am Bertie, and I am honest.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
But who are you? We are your daughter's children. I
have no daughter.
Speaker 18 (16:55):
Well make sure that you do, for she has to
bring us to expect your arrival on this very day,
the seventh of August nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 15 (17:06):
If you don't, we wouldn't have been there to save
your life. Well, you see, then, is an important man
in society. Most of the marbles you see around you
today were developed from his inventions.
Speaker 18 (17:17):
But, as our mother explained to us from an early age,
the truth foundation for Ben's success was his ability to
travel in time.
Speaker 15 (17:26):
Exactly, the tea machine allowed him to tamper with our
past and your future, so contriving an unfair advantage for
his own inventions.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Hell, have you ever.
Speaker 18 (17:35):
Heard of a man called Marconi. No nor Salue. Ever,
he was just one of the score of geniuses who
were murdered so that they might prosper.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Do you follow so far?
Speaker 7 (17:50):
Good? Wo?
Speaker 9 (17:52):
What someone's coming?
Speaker 1 (17:57):
It's Freddy for another grandchild, that's right? Or have brought
up some carols thing?
Speaker 15 (18:02):
No, when you emerge from the t machine then had
arranged for the police to arrest you and have you
done away with.
Speaker 18 (18:09):
So will use this photograph of yourself?
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Yes, don't forget to have that taken.
Speaker 18 (18:14):
Disguise to our brother Freddie as you his grandfather.
Speaker 15 (18:18):
Ked as decoy for the police while we bundled you off.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Here said how clever. Well it was your idea. I see,
we'll forget it.
Speaker 18 (18:26):
How will you?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
No?
Speaker 9 (18:27):
Look no, I really am most grateful, but if I
can rely on your help just once more, I'd like
to return to my own time.
Speaker 15 (18:35):
Not until you have killed Vin. We made it very
simple for you.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
You've got major Fairfactor's revolver. Yes, yes, then you shoot
then and escape to the past.
Speaker 9 (18:45):
Well, I don't know I'm going into quite like it. Here,
surrounded by my family.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Were assured this is him, I thought, Mum said he
was a boxing chance. Look, we're not asking much of you.
Speaker 15 (18:57):
Simply to repay the risks we've already taken on your bee.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
I'll never be able to find him.
Speaker 18 (19:02):
See here the court circular says that doctor Julius Ben
will attend the performance of the Royal X Ray Ballet
at Cotton Garden tonight, so so you'll be there too.
Here's your ticket.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Boy, you are two bogies down there knocking on doors.
You better clear out ground, Pa, But you.
Speaker 18 (19:22):
Say no, no, no, you'll be safer on the move.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
From where will I go with me? I'll show you
the sights? Give in a basket? What what's the day?
In the seventh of August nineteen seventy three? Good?
Speaker 9 (19:41):
The afternoon passed all too quickly, and at four minutes
to eight I was in the newly refurbished crush bar
of the Royal x Ray Ballet.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
House, Covent Garden. Haven't we better go in? Burphy?
Speaker 7 (19:53):
The valley's about this? Darne?
Speaker 1 (19:54):
No, damn it then? Hasn't turned up? Hud who we
might as well come home?
Speaker 15 (20:01):
I ask you, Grandpa, You different old folk, don't you see?
Ven As obviously sniffed a jig.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
There he is.
Speaker 15 (20:08):
Officers, Oh no, the briefs off is the bogies go wrong?
Speaker 11 (20:13):
But surely not, I mean, arrestless man, he is a
threat to the empire.
Speaker 9 (20:24):
Now look here, doctor, for all this unpleasantness, yes there is.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
I don't want to kill you. I mean I did,
but now of them came mine.
Speaker 11 (20:35):
It's too lately, seventy five years.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Too late, seventy five years. Listen, couldn't we come to
some agreement.
Speaker 11 (20:45):
Mister Tilly, I hardly think you are in a position
to bargain.
Speaker 9 (20:50):
Much as ours love to admit it. Dr Ben was
quite correct. You see, gentlemen, my position was suspended by
my wrists twenty feet above a girl danic bath of
sol fate of copper, having previously been painted with a
solution of nitrate of silver.
Speaker 11 (21:04):
Now, mister Tilley, it is my turn to fit you
for a suit, eh, a suit which will last you
the rest of your life.
Speaker 9 (21:17):
As I was lowered slowly into the bubbling bat below,
Dr Ven courteously explained the result of this fascinating chemical process,
I was to be coated in a copper sheath of
exceptional strength and durability.
Speaker 11 (21:33):
Don't feel singled out. We treat all our criminals like this.
Noar days.
Speaker 9 (21:39):
As the solution reached my knees, I remembered with a
shudder the rank upon copper rank of perfect statues in
that vast gallery where I first made my entrance into
this fearful age. Then, as a solution reached my waists.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Only half tips. Come back, you cowards?
Speaker 18 (22:10):
Are you time?
Speaker 9 (22:11):
Yes, but only just.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I'm getting into the wall, preparing tunnel your.
Speaker 19 (22:20):
Lord, look at him, yesses what you must escaped from
here and killed Ben?
Speaker 1 (22:34):
You must be joking. I'm jumping off. Watch come back.
Speaker 9 (22:48):
I made what haste I could, given my newly bicopied condition,
and resting an archway, I found myself in the very
hall of statues where my nightmay had begun. You may imagine, gentlemen,
my joy, for this meant that then seller and the
tea machine it contained were directly below. There was the door,
and yes it was unlocked. The faith were with me,
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I thought then. But as I stood once more before
the miraculous tea machine, I realized why my entry had
been so simple.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
Hello there to me.
Speaker 11 (23:27):
Yes, I got here before you, and so did I,
and so did I.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
And so But who are you? How can this be?
Which one of you is then.
Speaker 11 (23:42):
I am Julius then, from five minutes into the future.
Speaker 17 (23:45):
I am Julius Fenn from fifteen minutes into the future,
and I am Julius then from forty years into the future.
Speaker 20 (23:55):
Oh yes, well, I don't think we'll be needing you.
Speaker 17 (23:58):
Oh all right, But but you don't mind if I
watch still?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
It would be a pleasure, sir. It would be nice
to know that forty years.
Speaker 12 (24:07):
From now, I will once again savor the moment of
Tilly's dismemberment.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Ceasing.
Speaker 20 (24:21):
He I'd have a time, don't you see till me?
The very fact that we exist five minutes.
Speaker 17 (24:30):
Fifteen minutes, and forty years into their future proves.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
That your mission to destroy me will end in failure.
Speaker 17 (24:39):
Indeed, I am destined to survive, to be a very,
very old What happened? He simply vanished into thin I
know what's happening. We're all ceasing to yes, ceasing to exist.
One but last, you to me.
Speaker 11 (25:00):
Somehow, soon, in your lundering stupidity, you will.
Speaker 7 (25:04):
Succeed in killing me me. I'm sure I wouldn't. I'm
not finished yet.
Speaker 12 (25:12):
I have the power to start afresh from the beginning.
Speaker 9 (25:17):
So saying he set the controls of the tea machine
for the very afternoon. I called it his villa in Kensington,
a few minutes before I was first projected into that
hellish future. Just think, gentlemen, this man had the power
to go back and undo his errors.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Who would not use such a power once more?
Speaker 9 (25:36):
Then vanished through the arch with that familiar blue flicker,
and I, seizing my chnswer, returning to the saner times,
followed him after a minute's hesitation, still.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Trapped in the future. Now I'm here here.
Speaker 20 (25:53):
Beware of your life, you care the rest of your life,
of your life.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
It's too late.
Speaker 11 (26:04):
Seventy five years too late. Fifty minutes five mites.
Speaker 9 (26:23):
I appeared in then cellar, where everything was as it
was when I first left, but for one thing. There
sprawled on the floor on my feet was the twisted
corpse of doctor Ben. So hastily we ran from the
arch that he tripped headlong on a board sticking out
from the rotting floor and broke any scientific neck. As
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I bent over doctor Fen to assure myself of his decease,
I was startled to hear voices and footsteps descending the
stair to the cellar. For the first time in my life.
I made a speedy decision and concealed myself and the
late doctor Ben behind the dreary rag of curtain I'd
noticed earlier.
Speaker 13 (27:07):
My dear, we have all the time in the world.
Speaker 9 (27:15):
I held my breath as two familiar figures entered the room.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
What a mess?
Speaker 13 (27:20):
Excuse the state of the room.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Why have you ever brought me here for the reason
of statility.
Speaker 7 (27:33):
The tea machine.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Come closer and tell me what you think.
Speaker 14 (27:38):
Well, loose fohard, you wouldn't want me to trip over
as angel myself.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Stop to me watch.
Speaker 9 (28:07):
I waited a moment. Then, true to history, my former
self followed the older man through the incandescing arch. As
soon as it was quiet, I emerged from the curtain
and went home. But before I did, I took the
precaution of destroying that paradoxical invention. And so it was, gentlemen,
(28:28):
that all then's willpower was turned into one big Won't.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
That's the queerest one? Yet?
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Yes too, crab by half, I for one, do not
believe a word of it.
Speaker 9 (28:41):
Well look here, sir, you have my legs as copper
bottomed evidence, and the body of doctor Ven which, thanks
to an anonymous postcard will be discovered by the Constabulary
this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
If you destroyed the machine where it exists in the future,
that your future self may affect his return to the presence.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
It doesn't matter. I've already returned, haven't.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
I Yes, you have, But but you haven't because you'd
only just entered the machine, so you're still trapped in
the future.
Speaker 9 (29:18):
No not, I'm here not to think about it, gentlemen.
More savories felt very good.
Speaker 8 (29:34):
The Fall of the Mausoleum Club episode five. The Tea
Machine was written by Ian Brown and James Henry, starring
Patrick Allen, John Baddeley, Patty Coombs, Peter Howell, Polly James
Roy Keanear, Michael Ripper and John Samson. Music by Max Harris,
Special effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. The producer was
(29:57):
Paul Spencer.
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