Nothing Like That
In a lost property office under the trains at Flinders Street, anything you describe exactly turns up on the shelf, and the clerk has spent forty-seven years making sure one old man's glove never does.
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About this episode
There's a windowless room on Platform 1 at Flinders Street Station in Melbourne, with steel shelves, luggage tags on string and trains rumbling through the ceiling. Noreen Vella has worked its counter for most of her life. Describe a lost thing exactly at her hatch and it's sitting on her shelf, tagged. The catch is that somebody else in the city has just lost it.
Kieran is twenty-four and has just been moved off the ticket barriers. He thinks the rule is a gift and wants to prove it. Every Friday at half past four, an old man called Arthur comes in and describes the same brown glove, and Noreen tells him the same thing: nothing like that.
A work of fiction. Performed by synthetic voices.
Presented by Marlowe, performed by synthetic voices. A work of fiction.
