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SOLVED: Adult Fiction > SOLVED. Short story part heard on Radio 6 last year. Holiday to Med that doesn’t end [s]

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message 1: by Phil (new)

Phil Cuddy | 4 comments Hi all.

Listened to part of a short story on BBC radio 6 last year.

The gist of it was a husband and wife went on holiday to Spain (or somewhere in the Med). And for some reason their return flight was cancelled. They continued to stay in the hotel (I think at no extra cost) expecting to have a flight home soon. However, this flight didn’t come (I think the reason / excuse was du to pilot strikes).

Unfortunately I didn’t get to listen to the end!

The story had a feel that it may have been written around the 70s / 80's.
It was narrated by a woman.


message 2: by Lobstergirl, au gratin (new)

Lobstergirl | 44924 comments Mod
They seem to be an alternative music station (just looked them up). Do they regularly play stories? Was that the first time you had ever heard a story read on the station? Do you remember when last year (month would be helpful, also week) you heard it? They have an active Facebook page so it would be possible to go back to that time period and see what commenters were saying.

https://www.facebook.com/BBCRadio6Music

Would this have been a published story?


message 3: by Phil (new)

Phil Cuddy | 4 comments Hi Lobstergirl,

Thanks for the idea, I have gone through the Facebook page, but cannot see any reference to any short stories.

I cannot be certain, as I didn’t here the intro to the story, but I would be reasonably certain it was a published story.

Regarding the broadcast date, I can only guess it was circa autumn (is that a bit rubbish that I can't even remember an approximate date!)


message 4: by Kris (new)

Kris | 55012 comments Mod
Perhaps contact BBC Radio 6 directly?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/help#contact


message 5: by Phil (new)

Phil Cuddy | 4 comments Hi all,

I have received a response from 6 live and they don’t remember it....


message 6: by Lobstergirl, au gratin (new)

Lobstergirl | 44924 comments Mod
Weird...given that it was only last year.


message 7: by Rachel (new)

Rachel | 1527 comments Possibly "Having a wonderful time" by JG Ballard? According to this article, it was read on Jarvis Cocker's show late last year: http://jcss6m.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/...

It's in his book Myths of the Near Future


message 8: by Phil (new)

Phil Cuddy | 4 comments Brilliant! many thanks for finding this. Finally listened to it all from the link you sent.


message 9: by Rachel (new)

Rachel | 1527 comments You're welcome! I'm also a 6music fan :)


message 10: by Kris (new)

Kris | 55012 comments Mod
Nice find Rachel. I wouldn't have thought of looking for a fan archive.


message 11: by Rachel (new)

Rachel | 1527 comments I literally just googled "short story 6music" and it was at the top of the results - not particularly clever!


message 12: by Kris (new)

Kris | 55012 comments Mod
Hey, sometimes the simplest searches work best.


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