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Author: Michelle Penn
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Author Michelle Penn
Narrator Sophie Aldred, Saul Reichlin, Nigel Pilkington
Duration 1h 4m
On a wasted island in perpetual sun, the Father practices magic, laments his lost kingdom and commands a ragtag army of three: the passionate and damaged Daughter, the winged Spirit and an indigenous being known only as C. Behind their uniforms—white suits and full-face paper masks—the soldiers seethe with rebellion. The arrival of the...
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Author: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Sophie Aldred, Cal-I Jonel
Duration 1h 58m
For Solstice Shorts 2021 we invited writers to respond to the growing climate crisis. Where are the signs of renewal? Are there signs of regrowth? Have we pushed nature too far? What if it’s already too late? Poems and stories from the brink… a tipping point: responding to the floods and droughts and fires all around the globe with ten...
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Author: Jackie Taylor
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Author Jackie Taylor
Narrator Sophie Aldred
Duration 4h 33m
Set in Cornwall, coastal erosion and flooding take on a near mythical power as the short stories in this collection weave in and out of the recent past and near future, as lives and relationships ebb and flow with the tide. From one maritime tragedy to another, the community, and three generations of women from the same family, struggle with their...
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Author: Clare Owen
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Author Clare Owen
Narrator Sophie Aldred
Duration 7h 4m
Zed and her family move unwillingly from London to Cornwall, in an attempt to support her mother’s mental health. Gradually the family fall apart, and it is only when Zed realises that the local cormorants are playing a part in the disasters that consume them, in revenge for an ancient wrong, that she and her sister, Amy, start working togeth...
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Author: Amanda Brown
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Author Amanda Brown
Narrator Sophie Aldred
Duration 6h 3m
Horrifying, heartbreaking and eye-opening, these are the stories, the patients and the cases that have characterised a career spent behind bars. The no-holds-barred memoirs of a GP who went from working at a quiet suburban practice to treating the country's most dangerous criminals - first in young offenders' institutions, then at the notorious Wor...
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Author: Jane Shemilt
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Author Jane Shemilt
Narrator Sophie Aldred
Duration 11h 8m
'I still don't know why we had to check. Did we really think you would be there, curled up and sleeping on the stage? That we would put our arms round you, and take you home?' Naomi has vanished, leaving her family broken and her mother Jenny desperately searching for answers. But the traces fifteen-year-old Naomi's left behind reveal a very differ...
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