Written and abridged by James Robertson.

Second narrative strand from James Robertson's monumental new novel which portrays the last six decades of Scotland's social and political landscape through the lives of a handful of characters.

This week, the action is set in 1950 and the story focuses on the friendship between Don and Jack - two men in their thirties from the same village in Fife. The men have two key things in common: they get on the same bus to work each morning and they both served in World War Two. Don in Europe, Jack in the Far East.

Five years on, the war still casts a shadow but the men deal with its after-effects in very different ways.

Read by Liam Brennan.

Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. Show less