Was going through stuff, trying to declutter.  Hasn't worked, yet, I gave up before I was even ten minutes into the exercise, mainly because I managed to find some stuff like yesterday's poem.  I also found a box full of theatre plays, synopsis for screenplays, short stories and radio plays I'd written.  One of the plays didn't have a title, not even a working one. :-) Strangely enough, none of this stuff has ever been seen by anyone but me.  For good reason too.   So while I was digging through my past attempts at being a writer, I came across this from way back in the past.  I kept it, because it's the first thing I wrote which was commissioned.  I remember the excitement, the validation, the blood sweat and tears and walking into Broadcasting House for the first time and thinking, 'oh my, I'm a real bona fide [...]