LikeAladdin, but with posttraumatic stress,Charlie Echois a story about wishes the last wishes of a dying soldier in Normandy in 1944. Verbal wills of this sort are valid if there are two witnesses and the first men on the scene are radio operator Charlie Goodman and his assistant, Sid Saunders. Unfortunately, in the confusion of events that follow, Charlie fails to ascertain the full identity of the dying officer and is invalided back to Blighty plagued by trauma and remorse. Once he has been demobbed also, it falls to Saunders to break the impasse by getting his comrade to repair a radio telephone, just like the one they were using in France. What he doesnt anticipate is that working on the set will prompt Charlie to not only hear the mystery soldiers voice again, but to see him too. If not quite the genie in the lamp, it seems like theres a ghost in the machine and one thats been transported to his workshop in Leeds.Dismayed to discover that his wishes have not been carried out, the ghost goads Charlie into journeying through postwar Britain in order to fulfil his battlefield promise. Jolting between humour and pathos, its a journey that transforms reclusive repair man into unlikely pantomime hero and propels Saunders off in pursuit to play his allotted role in the "show"."For a number of years, I worked for the Film and Video Archive of the Imperial War Museum at Duxford, near Cambridge," explains Andrew, who lives in Alveley. "For the most part the job revolved...

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