An old school friend of Patrick,Basil,asks him to give a speech at the school's founders day and a nervous Patrick practices by speaking into a tape recorder. On the day Patrick is persuaded to play for the school cricket team and is hit in the throat by a ball,losing his voice.Basil suggests he mime to his speech on the tape recorder but Nanny has been using it to exercise her singing voice.
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