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Afternoon Reading: Susie Maguire - I Got the Dog

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Afternoon Reading: Susie Maguire - I Got the Dog: Episode 3: Chiara's Story

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Susie Maguire - I Got the Dog

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Episode 3: Chiara's Story

Chiara's Story

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Battle-scarred from her Russian relationships, can creativity bring Chiara salvation?

Battle-scared from her Russians, can Chiara's creativity bring her salvation? And what about the dog? Read by Vicki Pepperdine.

Susie Maguire's trilogy of comic stories about the fallout from a break up. Who gets left with what? Music, water, dogs, arithmetic, possessions... and love. Vicki Pepperdine reads Chiara's story.

Chiara is a performance artist. She does a little bit of dance, singing, theatre and mime. 

Boris was her first Russian. Dimitri was her second, although he was more Hampstead than St Petersburg.

All she has left from these relationships is a selection of battle scars. Surely she can salvage something from this? Never one to under-analyse the events in her life, she convinces herself that she can create something from this mess: "Yes," she decides, "I can workshop this." Pretty quickly she's mapped out an entire performance project complete with Rimsky Korsakov, some 'Eugene Onegin-y' type music, with Boris represented by a Nosferatu figure, whilst Andria and Dimitri are played by a pair of coats and hats. With references to film noir, Dali and Eisenstein all chucked into the melting pot for luck.  

Will Chiara's creativity bring her salvation? And what happened to the dog?

Vicki Pepperdine reads Chiara's story

Producer: Sarah Langan.

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Susie Maguire's trilogy of comic stories about the fallout from a break-up

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