The Third Policeman

Other by Flann O’Brien, read by Jim Norton

Released 2007

Tracklist

  • CD 1
  • 1
    Chapter 1
    4:40
  • 2
    After a few days...
    5:01
  • 3
    A full year had not passed...
    3:39
  • 4
    It was about this time, when i was nearly thirty...
    5:39
  • 5
    I do not know exactly how or when...
    5:09
  • 6
    On our way, I said to Divney...
    5:40
  • 7
    Chapter 2
    5:32
  • 8
    I cannot hope to describe what it was.
    4:48
  • 9
    Forlornly, i looked and saw that this was true.
    6:44
  • 10
    "No" is generally speaking a better answer than "Yes"...
    5:45
  • 11
    'Where's the black box which was under the floor...?'
    7:04
  • 12
    'And how does this enable you...?'
    5:52
  • CD 2
  • 1
    Chapter 3
    5:15
  • 2
    Everything seemed almost too pleasant...
    6:53
  • 3
    I walked on unperturbed...
    6:29
  • 4
    'I am a robber' he said.
    7:07
  • 5
    Chapter 4
    5:01
  • 6
    Of my own journey to the police-barracks...
    4:17
  • 7
    His back appearance was unusual.
    6:24
  • 8
    'He's gone to America...'
    6:21
  • 9
    'These Are Interesting Rules...'
    4:46
  • 10
    Chapter 5
    7:06
  • 11
    He put his little spear back on the shelf...
    6:28
  • 12
    He went to the table...
    5:17
  • 13
    All my senses were now strained so tensely...
    4:21
  • CD 3
  • 1
    Chapter 6
    6:07
  • 2
    'What is your attitude to the high saddle?'
    7:17
  • 3
    I said nothing...
    6:07
  • 4
    I looked carefully around me.
    5:32
  • 5
    'Did you never see a bicycle leaning against the dresser...'
    5:37
  • 6
    Chapter 7
    5:09
  • 7
    Standing at a point on the postulated spherical earth...
    5:10
  • 8
    To say this was a surprise...
    5:35
  • 9
    Both of us sat silent for a while...
    5:15
  • 10
    The next important thing that happened...
    6:30
  • 11
    How long this eeriness lasted...
    5:53
  • 12
    What happened eventually was not a shout...
    6:24
  • 13
    The door was flung open and in came Gilhaney.
    5:20
  • CD 4
  • 1
    Chapter 8
    4:46
  • 2
    As in many other of de Selby's concepts...
    6:45
  • 3
    These few words sickened me instantly with fear...
    5:56
  • 4
    He led the way to a door...
    6:06
  • 5
    My eye ranged round unsatisfied.
    6:16
  • 6
    I went carefully over to see what he was doing...
    5:07
  • 7
    The sergeant was already looming ahead...
    5:58
  • 8
    MacCruiskeen lit a match for our cigarettes...
    5:22
  • 9
    And so we did.
    6:58
  • 10
    We smoked in silence...
    5:09
  • 11
    As they wrangled on about sweets...
    2:54
  • 12
    Chapter 9
    4:57
  • 13
    Bassett and many of the other commentators...
    4:09
  • CD 5
  • 1
    For the rest, little remains save the record...
    4:40
  • 2
    Water, the word was in my ear...
    3:31
  • 3
    Chapter 10
    4:15
  • 4
    I was not at all pleased that this ghostly man...
    4:29
  • 5
    I thought it was a poor subject for conversation...
    6:44
  • 6
    'I heard a man once,' he said...
    4:46
  • 7
    Parts of this conversation came to me...
    5:22
  • 8
    For the first time, i had the courage to turn my head...
    5:21
  • 9
    Chapter 11
    5:43
  • 10
    Hatchjaw's friend, Harold Barge...
    6:22
  • 11
    I arose and streched my legs up and down the floor.
    7:02
  • 12
    In the next moment, i was fumbling for the barrack latch...
    6:30
  • CD 6
  • 1
    I laid the bicycle gently against the gate pier...
    5:13
  • 2
    I stopped thinking, closing my mind...
    5:21
  • 3
    I swung round in amazement...
    5:21
  • 4
    The great fat body in the uniform...
    5:13
  • 5
    He had now carefully blotted his work...
    6:00
  • 6
    He chuckled softly at the thought...
    8:02
  • 7
    Chapter 12
    4:38
  • 8
    There was nothing altogether unnatural in what i saw...
    5:19
  • 9
    A cold biting wind was sweeping in...
    5:41

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