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Book at Bedtime: Christmas Short Stories

James Fleet

Alexander McCall Smith

Kirsteen Cameron

Book at Bedtime: Christmas Short Stories: How to Escape in Gaelic

Christmas Short Stories

21/12/2016

How to Escape in Gaelic

BBC Radio 4 - Book at Bedtime, Christmas Short Stories, How to Escape in Gaelic

James Fleet reads a short story by Alexander McCall Smith, set on the Isle of Mull.

A former professor of Aeronautical Engineering puts his knowledge to good use in this charming tale written for BBC Radio 4 by Alexander McCall Smith. The reader is James Fleet.

A series of short stories specially written for BBC Radio 4 by Alexander McCall Smith, the bestselling author of the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Each story is set at Christmastime and each features the giving of special gifts.

In this third story, "How To Escape in Gaelic", read by James Fleet, an enterprising former Professor of Aeronautical Engineering puts his specialised knowledge to good use in order to escape the confines of a compassionless care home.

The four other stories in the series are read by Hannah Gordon, Trevor White, William Gaminara and Stephanie Cole. They range in subject matter from a generous 75-year-old German female owner of a Wall of Death, to a hot-tempered Canadian chef discovering humility at the hands of a food critic, to the dutiful President of an Eastern European country attending to the poor; and not forgetting Cousin Grace who, over a very dry Martini, shares her adventures in love (just the four marriages, so far) with three rapt young relatives. 


Reader: James Fleet

Writer: Alexander McCall Smith

Producer: Kirsteen Cameron.

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Series of short stories written for Radio 4 by Alexander McCall Smith.

Series of short stories written for Radio 4 by Alexander McCall Smith. Each story is set at Christmas time and features the giving of special gifts.

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