In the new issue of the magazine Mark Hodkinson's feature Bargain Bin Dreams starts with a bunch of old singles sitting unnoticed in the corner of a shop in Huddersfield. Reasoning that each one must at some time have represented the sum of somebody's hopes and dreams he decided to see if could track down the people who made them. He tells David Hepworth where his quest led him in this special Word shortcast.

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