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Lonely Edna is looking for love in wartime. Then a limping man approaches her.

After a dull night at the cinema, lonely Edna is looking for love in wartime. Then a limping man approaches her. Short stories recalling England in the '40s, read by Amanda Root.

Francis Wyndam's three stories of desire and yearning during the dark days of the second world war are matchless in tone and nuance. They centre on the young and old, on those upstairs and downstairs, on those in town and country...

3. Matchlight

After a dull night at the cinema, she is mysteriously
approached by someone on the way home...

Reader Amanda Root.
Producer Duncan Minshull.

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Stories by short fiction writer Francis Wyndham, recalling England in the 1940s

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