Ugly Duckling, The
Broadcast: 30th January 1950
Added: Jan 30 2007
“Dear Mr Valentine, having devoted my entire life to music I find that sometimes my knowledge of simple human nature is lacking. A friend of mine needs help quite desperately. A woman who gave up her own musical career just for the sake of a man who is as cold and bleak as incapable of tenderness as the music he composes of the dreary stone house they hibernate in. His name is Edmund Salter, he is very ill it is true but caring for him has made his wife even more than ill she can’t even smile anymore. Nor will she tell me her oldest and only remaining friend the strange secret of her unhappiness, her worry, her fear, perhaps even her danger…”