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Afternoon Reading: Tapertime

Afternoon Reading: Tapertime: Episode 4: Kirsty Gunn

Tapertime

Episode 4

Episode 4: Kirsty Gunn

Kirsty Gunn

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Stories about the effect of dusk continue with events in Kirsty Gunn's atmospheric forest.

In Kirtsy Gunn's story, a chance encounter in the murky wood suddenly changes the course of the narrator's life.

'Tapertime'

The above is an old Edwardian word meaning dusk, and this series of commissioned stories take place as the light fades. What happens to the visual world as dusk emerges? What happens to make people behave differently, often strangely, as the world starts to blur? 
Foxes by Kirsty Gunn

At the onset of evening she runs home to arrange the picnic, but animals cross her path, 
and a change of plan is made...

Reader Liz Sutherland
Producer Duncan Minshull.

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Series of five short stories that take dusk as a central theme or feature

Series of five specially-commissioned short stories that take dusk as a central theme or feature

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