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A BBC Radio 4 full-cast drama by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. Originally broadcast in the ‘Saturday Play’ slot on 8 November 2008. Wine shop owner Gerald desperately needs money: his business is failing and the landlord has raised the cost of the lease. When he inherits a watch that...

A fast paced medical thriller that sets and follows Jo Hart’s life long quest to recover and rediscover her principle identity. Pasting back fractured pieces of forgotten memories Jo, an orphan of Taurus, receives a little help from her friends, a loyal and lovable group, all of whom must embark on a dark forensic journey of transformative self discovery.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. A new century dawns, one in which America would become pre-eminent as its industrial might and military power rose above all others. In literature too its authors tackled new forms and new ideas, they shied away from little, immersing themselves and their readers in the promise of a new Century.