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A story of memory and place, old age and architecture.

"Otto had felt surprisingly nervous on the plane across from Geneva; not from any fear of flying, but a fear of what he was flying to. [...] Throughout the short flight he experienced a strange inner turbulence. He had a queasy sensation that he was re-establishing a connection with the past; flying backwards into his own memories. He would no longer be experiencing them from a distance, but in the city where they had once been real."

Architect Otto Laird has been living a semi-reclusive life with his second wife in Switzerland. But he is forced to re-engage with the wider world when he learns that his landmark building Marlowe House - a 1960s tower block in South London - has been marked for demolition.

Episode Three.
Otto flies from Geneva to London to start work on the TV documentary, only to become haunted by his past.

Nigel Packer lives in London. He has been a music reviewer for 麻豆官网首页入口 News Online and Ceefax, a reporting officer at the International Committee of the Red Cross and a contributor to various magazines and newspapers. The Restoration Of Otto Laird is his first novel.

Reader: Allan Corduner
Abridger: Jeremy Osborne
Producer: Rosalynd Ward

A Sweet Talk production for 麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 4.