Are you ready for a quest? Australian boxer, Perc Morgan is on the canvas. Holed up in a mining town after a disastrous fight, he can only wonder about ever again rising to success, sporting or otherwise. However, as he walks the dusty town by day, by night he begins dreaming about water, signalling the start of a latter-day Arthurian quest. Pretty soon this tale of rowing, redemption and sewage sees him joining forces with a bunch of fellow "knights", encountering a Merlin figure known as Sir Baz and coming to the disconcerting conclusion that finding his holy grail might just depend on the notion of pure filth!

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".