Elizabeth (host)
speaker
6,518 appearances
20 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 19 Aug
Elizabeth (host)’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 20 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 9.
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Joseph Porgrass rang the bell and received directions to back his wagon against the high door under the gables.
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The door then opened, and a plain elm coffin was slowly thrust forth and laid by two men in fusion along the middle of the vehicle.
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One of the men then stepped up beside her.
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took from his pocket a lump of chalk, and wrote upon the cover the name and a few other words in a large scrawling hand.
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We believe that they do these things more tenderly now and provide a plate than
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He covered the whole with a black cloth, threadbare but decent.
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The tailboard of the wagon was returned to its place.
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One of the men handed a certificate of registry to Paul Grass.
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And both entered the door, closing it behind them.
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Their connection with her, short as it had been, was over forever.
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Joseph then placed the flowers as enjoined, and the evergreens around the flowers, till it was difficult to divine what the wagon contained.
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He smacked his whip, and the rather pleasing funeral car crept down the hill and along the road to Weatherbury.
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The afternoon drew on apace, and looking to the right towards the sea as he walked beside the horse, Fourgrass saw strange clouds and scrolls of mist rolling over the long ridges which girt the landscape in that quarter.
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They came in yet greater volumes, and indolently crept across the intervening valleys, and around the withered papery flags of the moor and river brinks.
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Then their dank, spongy forms closed in upon the skies.
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It was a sudden overgrowth of atmospheric fungi which had their roots in the neighbouring sea.
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And by the time that horse, man and corpse entered Yoolbury Great Wood,
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These silent workings of an invisible hand had reached them, and they were completely enveloped, this being the first arrival of the autumn fogs and the first fog of the series.
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The air was as an eye suddenly struck blind.
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The wagon and its load rolled no longer on the horizontal division between clearness and opacity.
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