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The Painter and the Dybbuk

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By Claire Griffiths. A painter's talent has so far kept him alive in Auschwitz.

By Claire Griffiths. A painter's talent has so far kept him alive in Auschwitz. But a new painting puts him in great danger. Read by Nicholas Farrell.

Series of original stories by unpublished writers. 

In Jewish folklore a Dybbuk is the wandering soul of a dead person that enters the body of a living person and controls his or her behaviour. A painter's talent has so far kept him alive in Auschwitz. But as he starts on a portrait of one of the guards, he wonders just who is in control.

By Claire Griffiths, read by Nicholas Farrell.

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Series of five original stories by unpublished writers

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