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Afternoon Reading: Tapertime

Afternoon Reading: Tapertime: Episode 5: Adam Thorpe

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Episode 5: Adam Thorpe

Adam Thorpe

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An old woman seats herself in a remote part of Lincolnshire and paints the dusk.

By Adam Thorpe. In remotest Lincolnshire she always paints the gloaming, but something aside from darkened tones is revealed in her pictures.

'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? 
The Very Last Leave by Adam Thorpe

In remote Lincolnshire she always paints the gloaming, but something aside from darkened tones is revealed in her pictures...

Reader David Horovitch
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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