by Alan Sillitoc
'I once saw a bloke try to kill himself. I'll never forget the day because I was sitting in the house one Saturday afternoon, feeling black and fed-up because everybody had gone to the pictures, except me who'd for some reason been left out of it.'
Drawn from the prizewinning collection, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner. Read by Norman Rossington
Producer JOHN KNIGHT
(Repeated: Thurs 4.35 pm)