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Mick Jackson - Junior Science

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Junior Science

18/11/2011

The Answering Machine

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A boy's father buys an early version of an answering machine, with chilling consequences.

A boy's father buys a second-hand answering machine, with chilling and unexpected consequences. Read by David Holt.

To coincide with the broadcast of 'Junior Science', Mick Jackson is taking up a year-long post as writer-in residence at The Science Museum in London.

In these three specially-commissioned stories, children become involved in science with strange and unsettling results.

In 'The Answering Machine', the narrator remembers his father buying an early version of an answering machine. The machine changes the lives of his family in a chilling and unexpected way.

Mick Jackson is a Booker-nominated author and screenwriter. His first novel, The Underground Man, was shortlisted for The Booker Prize, The Whitbread First Novel Award and won The Royal Society of Authors' First Novel Award. He has published three novels and two illustrated collections of stories including Spirit Bears, Circus Bears and Sewer Bears which were produced by Sweet Talk for BBC Radio 4.

Mick also writes screenplays and has directed documentaries. One of his short stories,The Pearce Sisters, was adapted by Aardman Animation and won more than twenty prizes at international film festivals, including a BAFTA for Best Short Animation.

Mick lives in Brighton with his family.

Written by Mick Jackson
Read by David Holt


Producer: Rosalynd Ward
A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.

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By Mick Jackson. Three strange tales in which children become involved in science

By Mick Jackson. Three short stories in which children become involved in science, with strange and unsettling results

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