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Grief Is The Thing With Feathers by Max Porter

Episode 2

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Max Porter’s astonishing debut, Grief Is The Thing With Feathers, tells of a family who suddenly lose their wife and mother. Dad, a Ted Hughes scholar, struggles to cope until an unexpected visitor arrives. Crow – therapist, healer, feathered Mary Poppins – promises to stay until they no longer need him.

Crow ….. Toby Jones
Dad …. John Hollingworth
Boy ….. Will Taylor

Abridged by Eileen Horne
Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane Show less

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