"She was tired and her headache was getting worse. All she wanted to do was sit down somewhere in the shade and relax. She looked down to the end of the street; the square seemed far, far away."

A hot day, a woman alone in a foreign city . . .

Martin Foreman's work - comic, serious, challenging, entertaining - features regularly on Arbery Podcasts.

Elizabeth McNally is a professional Scottish actress, based in London, with a diverse experience of playing a variety of roles in both theatre and film.

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