Episode 8
Concetta goes into labour. But as she struggles to give birth to her child in the isolated Italian mountain village, her life is once more in danger.
The 15-year-old Concetta Salierno finally goes into labour. But as she struggles to give birth to her child in the isolated Italian mountain village, her life is once more in danger, and in her delirium she finally begins to retrieve some vital threads of memory about the days before the earthquake.
Sian Thomas reads this atmospheric mystery by Maria Allen.
Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall Productions for 大象传媒 Radio 4.
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- Wed 21 Jul 2010 22:45大象传媒 Radio 4
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