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Afternoon Reading: Welsh Rarebits: Episode 1: Golden Swirls

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Episode 1: Golden Swirls

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By Anna Smith. Carpet fitter Gavin and customer Mrs Leopold enjoy a surprising encounter.

By Anna Smith. Seventeen-year-old carpet fitter Gavin and unsatisfied customer Mrs Leopold enjoy a surprising encounter on the coffee-coloured swirls. Read by Matthew Gravelle.

Series of new short stories from Wales by established and lesser-known authors. 

By Anna Smith, read by Matthew Gravelle.

Seventeen-year-old Gavin does not enjoy being a carpet fitter - especially when he has to placate Mrs Leopold, an unsatisfied customer with a swirly coffee-coloured carpet. But when they feel the wool/nylon mix beneath their bare feet, both are surprised at where it leads them.

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Series of three short stories from Wales by established and lesser-known authors

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