Set in the almost mythical summer of 1940, A Flame in Your Heart tells the story of the al-too-brief love of a Spitfire pilot and his girl. Written by two young Scottish poets born after the War, A Flame in Your Heart was broadcast on Radio 4. Its 'intense' atmosphere earned praise in The Times: 'The true feel of the period was there.' For Catherine Lockerbie, writing in The Scotsman, it was a 'languid' atmosphere: 'A most beautiful and musically constructed gaze at life and death over the ripening fields and above the strawberries.'