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Book at Bedtime: Care of Wooden Floors: Episode 8

Care of Wooden Floors

Episode 8

BBC Radio 4 - Book at Bedtime, Care of Wooden Floors, Episode 8

A wine-fuelled restoration project ends in further chaos, then the angry cleaner returns.

A wine-fuelled restoration project ends in further chaos, and then the angry cleaner returns, armed with her mop.

A starkly minimalist flat drives a writer to the edge in Will Wiles' darkly comic tale.

'Thanks so much for this; you're a real friend for helping me out. I don't feel comfortable leaving the flat for so long, not with the cats... You'll like it, it's a nice flat.'

When an unnamed writer finds himself entrusted with looking after a disturbingly perfect minimalist apartment for his friend, Oskar, he looks forward to a chance to write, relax and recuperate. But all too soon, and inevitably, things begin to go wrong. The flat is owned by his old university friend, Oskar, an avant-garde composer, best known for his piece, 'Variations on Tram Timetables' , who turns out to be quite the perfectionist...

Today: a wine-fuelled restoration project ends in further chaos, and then the angry cleaner returns, armed with her mop...

Reader: Bertie Carvel
Abridger: Sally Marmion
Producer: Justine Willett.

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By Will Wiles. A writer finds himself looking after a disturbingly minimalist apartment

By Will Wiles. Darkly comic tale. An unnamed writer finds himself entrusted with looking after a disturbingly minimalist apartment in a nameless Mittel European city. Read by Bertie Carvel

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