by Michael Frayn abridged by Geoffrey Matthews. Read by Denys Hawthorne
John Dyson, head of the Cross-word and Country Diary department of a Fleet Street newspaper, has never really achieved any of his early ambitions. Plagued at home by dry rot and two children he doesn't understand and at work by the fear that a journalist is finished at 40, he seizes on the chance to become a television personality. (First of 13 instalments)