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By Marina Lewycka. A teenager wonders how to make the most of her last four minutes.

By Marina Lewycka. A teenage girl wonders how to make the most of her last four minutes, should the warning come. Read by Sian Thomas.

Fifty years ago, the world stood on the brink of nuclear war, as the US and Soviet leadership engaged in a military stand-off over missiles in Cuba.

In Marina Lewycka's story, the second in a series looking at the Cuban Missile Crisis through the eyes of ordinary people, a teenage girl wonders how to make the most of her last four minutes, should the warning come...

Reader: Sian Thomas
Writer: Marina Lewycka's novel, 'A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian', was long-listed for the 2005 Man Booker Prize and short-listed for the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction. Her most recent novel is 'Various Pets Dead and Alive'. 
Producer: Justine Willett.

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Short stories looking at the Cuban Missile Crisis through the eyes of ordinary people

Series of short stories looking at the Cuban Missile Crisis through the eyes of ordinary people

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