Backlash
Broadcast: 21st April 1947
Added: Apr 20 2009
They sat at the table in silence the dinner almost over George Turner on one side and his wife Jan opposite him. George could feel the tension between them growing from the moments Jan’s aunt Irene had excused herself to take a telephone call. It was a difficult situation; George had always hated aunt Irene with all his heart. Only the housing shortage and the prospect of rent-free lodgings had induced George to bring Jan to Irene’s home and humbly ask permission to stay there. Of course it was difficult for a man like George to be humble under any circumstances and by now he was telling him self it would be the greatest of all possible pleasures to kill aunt Irene with his bear hands…