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It Was a Dark and Stormy Night....: 1: The Chimes

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

by Ronald Frame, read by Edith Macarthur.

Five specially commissioned short stories, each beginning with one of English literature's most celebrated - or notorious - opening lines.

An elderly novelist makes a pilgrimage back to her childhood home, but the journey takes her farther then she ever expected.

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Author:
Ronald Frame
Reader:
Edith Macarthur
Producer:
David Jackson Young
Source: Radio Times

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