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With the death of Hannah, at Warlow's hands, Powyss is subsumed by guilt.

Hannah had been expecting his child.

Catherine will care for the family. One day, a beggar knocks on her door.

Herbert Powyss lives on an estate in the Welsh Marches with enough time and income to pursue a gentleman’s fashionable investigation into botanical experimentation. But he longs to make his mark in the field of science – something consequential enough to present to The Royal Society in London. Influenced by something he’s read, he decides to conduct a radical investigation into the Resilience of the Human Mind Without Society. He places an ad for a suitable guinea pig.

Only one man is desperate enough to apply for the job; a semi-literate, angry abuser.

What could possibly go wrong?

Written by Alix Nathan and abridged by Jeremy Osborne.

Concluded by Robert Glenister.

Producer: Karen Rose

A Sweet Talk production for Â鶹Éç Radio 4, first broadcast in August 2019.

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