Pereira has taken on a young assistant to help him with the culture page of a Lisbon newspaper. But the young man, though charming and eager to help, writes articles that are unpublishable in the repressive political climate of Portugal in 1938. And yet inexplicably, Pereira finds himself paying the young man out of his own pocket.

Written by Antonio Tabucchi

Read by Derek Jacobi

Producer: Jane Marshall
A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. Show less