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Radio 3,15 Jan 2016,14 mins

SeriesListener, They Wore It

Ray Bradbury's The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit

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Five writers recall clothes and accessories that resonate vividly in works of art: The series started with a white dress and ends with a pristine white suit ... Author and journalist John Walsh describes the transformative powers of a 'two-piece', worn in turn by a motley bunch of blokes in Los Angeles and celebrated in Ray Bradbury's story 'The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit'. Producer Duncan Minshull

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