This piece has many strengths: A touching story, the author's nostalgic almost haunting voice, effective use of sound effects and music (the narrator singing?), details that take the listener to the places the narrator describes (the stones rolling in the waves, the narrow double bed, the fibers of the wool in the husband's pullover...). However, it is trying to do two things at once. The period feel and wistful story of the honeymoon doesn't quite mesh with the horrors of the battle at Dieppe thirteen years earlier. Perhaps this could have worked if the narrator had a closer connection to the earlier events or there was some other linking of the two periods. It's a shame it didn't work because in many ways it is a beautiful piece.

Star's eloquent and articulate voice is extraordinary. Her story, juxtaposed with her equally articulate sister's very different take on the same events, is moving and compelling. The listener is drawn in and compelled to root for Star, who has been through so much yet is completely without self pity and still able to forgive and to hope. Hard to believe she did not have a job when she seems to have such talent for radio!

A lovely piece, both informative and artistic. I especially liked the way it began in Hul'qumi'num without translation, the sounds of the sea itself and the evocative almost plaintive rendition of God Save the King.

I remember many years ago hitching a ride with a German truck driver across northern France. As we drove through seemingly endless fields of crimson poppies and bone white gravestones, iconic, almost dreamlike, I asked him, in my limited German, "Was ist das?". "Krieg", he answered, "War". We drove on in silence for a long long way, amidst the remains of our separate yet desperately linked histories. "Unquiet Graves" took me back to that time and place with its haunting juxtapositions of everyday life - food, flowers, conversations - and horror - bodies unearthed regularly to this day, one of them perhaps my own great-uncle, a pilot lost over France in 1917. The rich soundscape - music, a visit from a neighbour, a guided tour, the news from Iraq - and thoughtful narration make us realize how very much "over there" was with us then and is with us still.

Choosing tones from the PRX list of options - "sweet" - well, I would rather have said "touching" maybe or even "moving" but they weren't in the list. "Intriguing" - definitely. I've always wondered what ordinary life might be like in a brothel. "Inspiring" - it really is oddly inspiring to hear about the relationship between a lonely but decent trucker from Canada and a generous-hearted Nevada prostitute who describes herself as "a real people person". Not to mention Mom, the Madam, who looks after everybody, gives common sense advice to truckers in tears and makes sure the place has high standards of health and even higher levels of confidentiality. I also really liked the sound of this piece - not a lot of fancy sound effects, but just enough to give a sense of place. And, as luck would have it, both the trucker and the prostitute had great voices for radio. A really lovely piece!