Mara Bergman has a warm, easy, laid-back and conversational style, wonderful descriptive powers, and a nice line in nostalgia for her American childhood – vividly recalling old Coca-Cola bottles, the fabulous flavours of Hershey’s Ice Cream Parlor, Hitch-Hiking on Wantagh Parkway

– reminiscent of some of Bruce Springsteen’s early lyrics.

In The Night We Were Dylan Thomas Mara, 65, reflects from her home in Kent on life and love, friends and family, sometimes wickedly – as in ‘Uses for a Wedding Dress’ — and sometimes more gently — And she? That’s her bench, | something about love, about memory.