Episode 3
A new ghost story from Helen Dunmore, set during and after the Second World War, about the power of the past to imprint itself on the present, and possess it.
3/5 A new ghost story from Helen Dunmore set during and after the Second World War, about the power of the past to imprint itself on the present, and possess it. In 1952, newly-married Isabel Carey and her husband Philip come to live in a small town close to a wartime bomber station. One night, when Philip is out on call, Isabel finds an RAF officer's greatcoat in a cupboard, and spreads it on the bed to keep her warm. In the middle of her dreams, she hears a knocking on the window, and when she gets out of bed and goes to look outside, there is an RAF officer wearing the greatcoat, and mouthing her name. When he comes to her door the next day, she finds herself slipping into another world of sexual passion in which she and Alec, the RAF officer, know each other intimately, and outside the war is still going on.
Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths.
Reader: Jasmine Hyde
Producer: Beth O'Dea.
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