Broadcast: 20th March 1949

Starring: Jack Moyles

Added: Oct 11 2003

“Her name was Vivi, I don’t know what the rest of it was or where she came from, probably a mixture of all the forgotten places from the Danube to the Nile. She wore too much makeup, her clothes wouldn’t have scored a second look in a fire sale and her collarbones kept reminding you she was even skinnier than the dames in the fashion magazines from back home. But there was something about her. Chris my bartender called her the sphinx because she had wide Egyptian eyes and because she always seemed to smile no matter who threw sand in her face. I had a different idea. I figured out a long time later that Vivi knew what she wanted that’s all, and it was good…”