My friend Rachel is FAMOUS … she has had her short stories read on the BBC. Yes, that’s right. The BBC reads Rachel’s fiction on the air. Is that cool or what? You can listen to the latest one, "Quantum Man" RIGHT NOW on the BBC website. Click HERE.
You really should listen, it takes about 10 minutes and it is a W O N D E R F U L story. So go listen now (you need RealPlayer, if you don’t have it, it’s an easy download and there’s a link on the BBC site for the download). After you listen, come back here to read more…..
Did you listen??? Wasn’t it wonderful? (If you cheated and didn’t listen, go back now and do it. Here’s the link AGAIN. LISTEN HERE.)
I guess I’ve probably know Rachel almost 15 years now. I met her when I was working in Frankfurt for an Agence France Presse wire service. I think it was one of her first jobs. Of course, she immediately made me nervous because she worked harder and spoke German better than I did. Luckily (at that point) I knew a bit more about financial journalism that she did!
The Frankfurt office was full of, shall we say, difficult personalities and because Rachel was so easy going, she got some of the most difficult assignments ’cause I knew she wouldn’t make waves and would do a good job without torturing me. Of all the people I’ve worked with, Rachel was one of the best … she
obviously learned quickly because she eventually moved on to work at
Reuters and write a book about personal finance.
A while after I left Germany and went to California, Rachel ended up in NYC and when I went back to NYC, I lived in her house in Brooklyn for a while. In retrospect, I wish Rachel and I had just "hung out" more then, but sometimes life gets in the way (especially the stupid parts). Rachel went back to England, I moved out to Bucks County and we lost touch for a while. Next thing I know, Rachel is a FAMOUS WRITER (did i mention that you should go listen to her story?)
She says she’s working on a novel and believe me, you’ll hear it here first when I get word about publication.
(ETA: I just spent way too much time trying to figure out how to snarf the audio file and save it on my computer, so I could listen to the story whenever I wanted, but I couldn’t do it. If anyone can figure out how to save the file off the BBC broadcast site, I’ll be your best friend forever.)
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