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Dreaming the City

Russell Finch

Francesca Panetta

Sam Thompson

Dreaming the City: Episode 2: The Fox Wife

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Episode 2: The Fox Wife

The Fox Wife

BBC Radio 4 - Dreaming the City, The Fox Wife

Sam Thompson takes us to Oxford to follow a man whose wife has turned into a fox.

Four journeys into the dark, recurring dreams of the city. In each episode, leading writers collaborate with documentary-makers Russell Finch and Francesca Panetta to uncover the unsaid obsessions of city life.

Episode 2: The Fox-Wife by Sam Thompson
In Oxford, we follow a man whose wife has turned into a fox.

These experimental radio features blend archive, fiction and documentary footage. What's real and what's fiction becomes unclear, just like in the city.

A city isn't just a location on the map, it's a place we imagine, dream about, invent. A place to love, to endure or to resent. A place where you can find anything - but it always has a price.

You don't need to live in a city - it's part of the universal imagination. But the way we think of it has common dark undertones, recurring dreams that come round again and again. These late night woozy dreamscapes uncover those unsaid obsessions, each taking a different theme, and question why these ideas seem to keep coming back in the way we imagine urban living.


Producers: Russell Finch and Francesca Panetta
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Writers collaborate with documentary-makers to uncover the unsaid obsessions of city life

Writers collaborate with documentary-makers Russell Finch and Francesca Panetta to uncover the unsaid obsessions of city life. The programmes combine elements of fiction, archive and real-life footage

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