The ghost in the machine

This is the BBC Home Service. Here is the news and this is Alvar Lidell reading it.

"I woke up in my darkened bedroom feeling sure that I’d just heard the voice of wartime newsreader, Alvar Lidell coming through my vintage radio. How could a defunct wireless set with no plug suddenly spring into life? I thought I must have been dreaming, but the following night I was awakened at the same time by the vocal gymnastics of Gracie Fields. This was weird because my mum had told me a lot about the war years, including  Alvar Lidell’s famous introductory line, and the songs of Gracie Fields.”

I’m fairly sure I can get a story out of that. My way of writing is organic in the sense that I seldom have any clear idea where the story is going. I just let it unfold and I get ideas as I go along. My mum only came into this one ten minutes ago.    
    In the real world I’ve given the radio a rub down with boiled linseed oil and it’s looking great. (Smells nice too.)