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Afternoon Reading

Alan Sillitoe Short Stories

Episode 5: The Caller

Duration: 18 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Sarah and Stephen are desperate to leave London and buy a house in the country; a chance encounter with a funeral procession leads them to the perfect house for sale in the perfect village. The previous owner has died in a car crash under mysterious circumstances. His widow seems anxious to leave the house, and the new owners gradually discover why.

Read by Philip Jackson
Written by Alan Sillitoe
Abridged by Fiona McAlpine

Producer: Clive Brill
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