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Radio 4,28 Jan 2022,14 mins

The Town Marshal

The Poet and the Echo

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Writers choose poems as inspiration for an original short story. Episode 3/3 The Town Marshal An unusual event disrupts a training session in a prison. A powerful story inspired by Edgar Lee Masters briefly banned Spoon River Anthology. By Phil Crockett Thomas. Credits Writer: Phil Crockett Thomas Reader: Carl Prekopp Producer: Naomi Walmsley A BBC Scotland Production for BBC Radio 4.

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