Like Aladdin, but with post-traumatic stress, Charlie Echo is a
story about wishes - the last wishes of a dying soldier in Normandy
in 1944. Verbal wills of this sort are valid if there are two
witnesses and the first men on the scene are radio operator Charlie
Goodman and his assistant, Sid Saunders. Unfortunately, in the
confusion of events that follow, Charlie fails to ascertain the
full identity of the dying officer and is invalided back to Blighty
plagued by trauma and remorse. Once he has been demobbed also, it
falls to Saunders to break the impasse by getting his comrade to
repair a radio telephone, just like the one they were using in
France. What he doesn't anticipate is that working on the set will
prompt Charlie to not only hear the mystery soldier's voice again,
but to see him too. If not quite the genie in the lamp, it seems
like there's a ghost in the machine and one that's been transported
to his workshop in Leeds. Dismayed to discover that his wishes have
not been carried out, the ghost goads Charlie into journeying
through post-war Britain in order to fulfil his battlefield
promise. Jolting between humour and pathos, it's a journey that
transforms reclusive repair man into unlikely pantomime hero and
propels Saunders off in pursuit to play his allotted role in the
"show".
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