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Cesca is a junior engineer at Sounds Like Radio, a small radio studio on the outskirts of Birmingham. With the owner, Mr Chopra, rarely present, the studio stays afloat largely thanks to the work Cesca puts in. With a new recruit whose work ethic is lacking, and a senior sound engineer who is highly strung, she's going to have her work cut out. With the sound of drilling from the property next door ruining their recordings, Cesca must investigate...
To honour Remembrance Day, we're sharing Alison Carter's story, For Idle Hands. First published in The People's Friend November 10, 2021.
Set in 1939, the story opens just before war is declared, and follows the lives of the Pollard family as they try to carry on in the face of uncertainty
Danielle and her godmother Lydia lived very different lives, yet fate seemed to have brought them together...