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The Poet and the Echo

The Night Is Darkening Round Me

Duration: 14 minutes

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

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Writers choose poems as inspiration for new stories.

'The Night is Darkening Round Me'

Read by Caitrìona Balfe.

Linda’s on a cliff-side walk with her partner when she slips, falls and finds herself caught in a fragment of time.

Eugene O’Hare’s captivating story inspired by Emily Brontë’s poem.

Credits

Writer ….. Eugene O’Hare
Reader ….. Caitrìona Balfe
Producer ….. Kirsty Williams

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