The Listening Zone

"Wednesdays" for Mrs Taylor are sacrosanct. On Wednesdays, she escapes from unbearable reality into a fantasy world, a world to which she feels she rightly belongs.

In "The Undivided", Peggy Slater's husband earns a great deal of money but how does that affect the couple who live in the next street?

"Hannah, the Maiden" tells the story of a happy shepherd on New Year's Even whilst he anxiously awaits the presence of a stranger who will change his life forever.

The protagonist in "The Beginning of Eternity" considers himself finished. A timid man by nature, he distrusts uncontrolled emotions, but does he cope when he goes down to the cellar?

The author, Betty Smith, a keen amateur criminologist, captives her audiences with these four quirky fictional short stories.