Quarter 2
will be a bit shorter than usual because there was a period of about a month in
which I didn’t listen to any audio drama (sad, I know). Without any further ado . . .
001 Historical Drama – New
Some episodes of Tommies
succeed better than others. SPOILERS!! I
thought, at first, listening to “17
April 1917” by Nick Warburton, that this was going to be one of the lesser
ones. At first I thought the authorial
voice was intruding too much, and I didn’t see what was the point of the woman
who had come from India to find her husband in a serious condition in hospital
and the rather rambunctious telegrapher who was coming to see her brother. Quite far into the narrative, I put two and
two together, and realized they were both there to see Mickey Bliss. His son was there as well; he hadn’t seen his
sister in 12 years and his wife and son in about 4. I had honestly forgotten Mickey was married
(all I could remember was the grand affair with Celestine de Tullio that
wasn’t). However, about halfway through
this episode became probably the most heart-breaking one I’ve heard. Much as I have been grimacing due to gore from
previous episodes, on the Tube and on the train, in this one I think I was walking
around Eccles with my headphones on and my mouth open in shock. Mickey was deaf! OMG!
Fortunately, after the ministrations of a clever doctor and nurse, who
figures out that Mickey is suffering psychosomatically from deafness, a fake
operation makes Mickey think he’s been “cured.”
It was a brilliant episode.
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