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Twenty Minutes - A Woman without a Country

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"I saw her that spring between the third and fourth races at Campino with the Conte de Capra - the one with the mustache" John Cheever's classic short story is about a young woman whose moment of scandal in suburban America causes her to flee to Europe, starting with Genoa. But she later turns up at all the best watering-holes across the continent. She is restless. She is homesick. Then a momentous decision to return to America seems best for her, until that song is heard at Idlewild Airport... The story of a young American woman, who graces the best watering holes of Europe, ever restless... Read by Nathan Osgood Producer Duncan Minshull.