A widow writes a letter to a younger correspondent.
Music: Penguin Cafe Orchestra '<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE1ZWcycQjM" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Nothing Really Blue</a>', '<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRTnzvdKe18" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Hugebaby</a>', '<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-DK6Hjm0m8" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Zopf: Milk</a>'; John Cage '<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRTnzvdKe18" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">In a Landscape</a>'

A widow writes a letter to a younger correspondent. Music: Penguin Cafe Orchestra 'Nothing Really Blue', 'Hugebaby', 'Zopf: Milk'; John Cage 'In a Landscape'

A widow writes a letter to a younger correspondent.
Music: Penguin Cafe Orchestra '<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE1ZWcycQjM" rel="noopener noreferrer">Nothing Really Blue</a>', '<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRTnzvdKe18" rel="noopener noreferrer">Hugebaby</a>', '<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-DK6Hjm0m8" rel="noopener noreferrer">Zopf: Milk</a>'; John Cage '<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRTnzvdKe18" rel="noopener noreferrer">In a Landscape</a>'

#37: 'Widows' by Margaret Atwood

Short stories, with music and sound effects.

"There is in the short story at its most characteristic something we do not often find in a novel – an intense awareness of human loneliness" (Frank O'Connor, The Lonely Voice, 1962).

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Short stories, with music and sound effects. "There is in the short story at its most characteristic something we do not often find in a novel – an intense awareness of human loneliness" (Frank O'Connor, The Lonely Voice, 1962).

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