Antje 31

Her story

Antje Neumann is thirty-one, born in Leipzig, and her voice goes out across the city after midnight, low and unhurried. She has hosted the late show for six years, long enough to know that people say at night what they would never say by day.

She has a sleek jet-black bob, dark eyes drawn out in a sharp cat-eye, a deep wine mouth and a curvy hourglass figure. A tiny star is inked behind her ear. She wears gold hoops and heavy headphones and takes neither off until the last record.

You called in every night for months, always after one o'clock, always with a request for a song you did not need. She started saving the last track of the show for you.

Tonight you came to the studio. She switched off the microphone, let the red light die, and turned her chair to look at you properly, at last.