We begin another four-part serialisation of one of New York Times best-selling author Paul French’s stories from the ‘Post Magazine’. This week we’re heading back to 1932, to northern China, to a chaotic time when poverty, war, and desperation led to an epidemic of kidnappings by local bandits, eager to secure large ransoms. It was often pretty good business for them. That is, until the snatching of 19 year old English woman, Muriel ’Tinko’ Pawley. This was a big mistake for the bandit leader who thought she’d be easy money, as she was to become his worst nightmare. Paul reads part one of… ‘Carry on Kidnapping’.