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Voices from Behind the Canvas

Ennui by Shena Mackay

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 ExtraLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

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"The time of day when a man and a woman wonder why fate has cast them together in these lodgings". Camden Town, London, 1913.

Shena Mackay's short story based on Walter Sickert's Ennui.

Read by Tilly Vosburgh.

A collection of short stories in which a famous painting, or a character within the painting, tells their tale.

Producer Julia Butt

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001. Show less

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