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• Child of Ardoyne
• City Messengers
• Dreaming of Osama
• Enter the Garden: A Portrait of Toru Takemitsu
• Falling For Francoise
• Father and Son
• Ghost Town
• Hark! An Acoustic Archaeology of Elizabethan England
• Heartbreakers: the story of all-girl Zep
• Heel Toe Step Together
• Hook, Line and Singer
• i-shrine
• Internet Sleuths
• Lance Corporal Baronowski's Vietnam
• Leonard and Marianne
• Life After Vietnam
• Lonely Nights
• Make Perhaps This Out Sense of Can You
• Mother's Mountain
• No Brakes, No Fear
• Padre Skinner's War
• Peggy Seeger: In Her Prime
• Poetry, Texas
• Rhapsody in Bohemia
• Riot Grrrls
• Rock's DNA
• Roller Girls
• Songs Your Godmother Should Know
• Sounding Post
• Still Points, Turning Worlds
• Studs Terkel - The Last Touch
• The Blackbird - The Life and Legacy of Delia Murphy
• The Diving Venus
• The Listening Post: Sybil Phoenix
• The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
• The Voices of Robert Wyatt
• Twitterpated
• Unbuilding Detroit
• Under Jacques Demy's Umbrella
• Vienna and the Shadow of the Third Man
• Warsaw Variations
• What's Cooking: A Portrait of the Kitchen Sisters - Part One
• What's Cooking: A Portrait of the Kitchen Sisters - Part Two
• William Thompson IV's War

Extras

• A Time of Evening
• Animation: Dee Dee Conover
• Animation: Jack and Jeffrey Lewis
• Animation: Short Cuts Ident
• Curated: My Share of the Sky
• Rhapsody of Light
• Short Cuts: Can't Rewind the Past - Into the Wild
• Short Cuts: Cerys Matthews - Lost for Words
• Short Cuts: Deborah Moggach - The Comfort of Strangers
• Short Cuts: Ignatz and Krazy Kat - Divided we Stand
• Short Cuts: Neil Brand - Lost for Words
• Stevie Wonder plays Sir Duke
• Studs and Jimmy

About

Produced by Eleanor McDowall
Duration: 3'46"

First broadcast in 'Short Cuts: The Comfort of Strangers' on 24th January 2012, BBC Radio 4

The writer Deborah Moggach relays an act of extraordinary kindness from someone she didn't know.