Mat (Matt) Burke
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177 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 10 Jul
Mat (Matt) Burke’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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To see, you mean?
I'm thinking you have a bit of it in your blood too.
Your old man wasn't only a barge rat, begging your pardon all his life by the cut of him.
Did they now?
They had spirit in them then.
It's only on the sea you'd find real men with guts, fit to wed fine, high-tempered girls like yourself.
Yes, thank God.
Though I've not seen sight of my homeland in 15 years or more.
He wasn't telling no lie.
Hard and lonesome life, the sea is.
Work on the land, is it?
Digging spuds in the muck from dawn till dark, I suppose.
I wasn't made for that, miss.
There's good jobs and bad jobs at sea, just like there'd be on land.
My thinking was, if I could get myself in the stoke hall of a proper liner, someday I'd be able to have a little house and be home to it one week out of four.
I'm thinking then that maybe I'd have to look to find a fine, decent girl, like yourself now, might be willing to wed with me.
Why, sure.
I think it could be that a girl like yourself might maybe not mind the past at all, but only be seeing the good herself put in me from the moment we met.
I don't see why not.
She'd not be sorry for it.
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