The Centaur's Spectacles

Drama of the Week

BBC

Drama, Fiction

3.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

A specially commissioned story from the award-winning author Katherine Rundell.

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0:42.0	The Centaur's Spectacles, written and read by Catherine Rundle.
0:46.3	Music, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:55.8	Once there was a centaur named Silaris who bent over a fire and made a pair of spectacles.
1:03.0	The lenses were not made of glass.
1:06.3	The centaur, who was an artisan of rare finesse and flair,
1:09.9	melted a powder of dragon scales in a pan.
1:13.3	When the mixture had solidified into a thin translucent sheet,
1:17.1	he polished it with a cloth woven from a dry ad's hair,
1:21.0	until it was as clear as glass.
1:24.1	Silaris wanted, for the frames of the spectacles,
1:27.4	a quill from the feather of the Sphinx's wing.
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