Christopher Fitton
speaker
16,593 appearances
56 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 6d ago
Christopher Fitton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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When he saw Theseus coming through the woods, he thought that he would have a rich prize, for he knew from the youth's dress and manner that he must be a prince.
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He lay on the ground, where leaves of ivy and tall grass screamed him from view, and he held his great ein club ready to strike.
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But Theseus had sharp eyes and quick ears.
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and neither beast nor rubber giant could have taken him by surprise.
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When a club carrier leaped out of his hiding place to strike him down, and young man dodged aside so quickly that the heavy club struck the ground behind him, and then, before the rubber giant could raise it for a second stroke,
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Theseus seized the fellow's legs and tripped him up.
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Club Carrier roared loudly and tried to strike again, but Theseus wrenched the club out of his hands, then dealt him such a blow on the head that he never again harmed travelers passing through the forest.
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Then the youth went on his way, carrying the huge club on his shoulder and singing a song of victory and looking sharply around him for any other foes that might be lurking among the trees.
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Just over the ridge of the next mountain, he met an old man who warned him not to go
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He said that close by a grove of pine trees, which he would soon pass on his way down the slope.
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There dwelt a robber named Sinus.
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He was very cruel to strangers.
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He is called Pine Bender, said the old man, for when he is called a traveller, he bends two tall lithe pine trees to the ground and binds his captive to them, a hand and a foot to the top of each one, and a hand and a foot to the top of the other.
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Then he lets the trees fly up.
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and roars with laughter when he sees the traveller's body torn in sunder.
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It seems to me, said Theseus, that it is full time to rid the world of such a monster.
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and he thanked the kind man who had warned him, and hastened onward, whistling merrily as he went down towards the grove of pines.
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soon he came in sight of the robber's house built near the foot of a jutting cliff.
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Behind it was a rocky gorge and a roaring mountain stream, and in front of it was a garden wherein grew all kinds of rare plants and beautiful flowers.
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but the tops of the pine trees below it were laden with the bones of unlucky travellers, which hung bleaching white in the sun and wind.
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