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By Toby Litt. A teenager searches for his missing Bob Dylan record all over the village.

By Toby Litt. 1985. After his LP collection is vandalised at his sister's party, a 15-year-old boy searches the village to track down his one surviving record (by Bob Dylan).

Bob Dylan - one of the most significant and influential cultural figures of the late 20th and early 21st century - was 70 on 24 May 2011. The three stories in Ballads Of Thin Men were commissioned specially to mark the occasion.

Written by Toby Litt

It's 1985. A fifteen-year-old boy finds his entire LP collection vandalised after his sister's eighteenth birthday party. All except one - his only Bob Dylan record - which he'd lent out. But who has it? He goes all over the village to track it down, but his reasons for doing so aren't what they might seem...

Toby Litt was born in 1968 and grew up in Bedfordshire. In 2003, he was named one of Grant's Best of Young British Novelists. His most recent novel, King Death,was published in 2010. His story, The Melancholy, formed part of the Sweet Talk series Why, Robot? for the Afternoon Reading in 2010.

Reader: Matt Green
Producer: Jeremy Osborne
A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4.

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Stories written to mark the occasion of Bob Dylan's seventieth birthday.

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