Chance Meeting

On my way to a rehearsal, I walked into my local tube station carrying a small keyboard in its case. I sat down to wait for the train and a lady sitting at the other end of the bench asked what was in the case (she was clearly American). I unzipped the case and played her a tune. "That's nice" she said" who do you play for?" "Anyone who calls me up" I replied and mentioned that I'd worked for the BBC for many years. She seemed interested and told me that she was in the UK doing research on the plays of Samuel Beckett and there was one radio recording that she had not been able to track down; she was looking for information about an experimental production of "All That Fall" recorded at the BBC in about 1975. She realised that asking a stranger on a railway platform was a bit of a long shot but worth a try. By a strange coincidence I had worked on that very production twenty years before and was able to put her in touch with the producer (long since retired).