The Story
Benny is a Welsh coal miner. He is a radio ham. He is 23 years old, married
To Molly. They have a son, young Ben, aged 4, and a new baby. They look after
Benny's twin brother Billy, who is apparently a vegetable. The mine is closed
By the market forces. The Male Voice Choir stops singing, the village is dying.
One night Benny takes Billy on a pub crawl. Drunk in a brightly-lit shopping
Mall, Benny vents his anger on a shop window full of multiple TV images of
Margaret Thatcher's mocking condescension. In defiance, he steals a cordless
'phone. Later that night, Benny cavorts dangerously on the parapet of a
Motorway footbridge, in theatrical protest at the tabloid press. That same
Night, a cab driver is killed by a concrete block dropped off a similar bridge.
The police come to question Benny; he hides the cordless 'phone under the
Cushion of Billy's wheelchair.
Billy is different, he can receive radio waves directly without the aid of a
Tuner; he explores the cordless 'phone, recognizing its radioness.
Benny is sent to prison. Billy feels as if half of him has been cut off. He
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