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Book at Bedtime: Remember Me Like This

Clarke Peters

Bret Anthony Johnston

Jill Waters

Book at Bedtime: Remember Me Like This: Episode 1

Remember Me Like This

Episode 1

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Eric Campbell, taking a shower in a house that is not his own, receives a phone call.

Eric Campbell, for four years 'the father of the missing boy', is taking a shower in a house that is not his own, when he receives a phone call.

Summer, the Texas Gulf coast - and Justin Campbell, missing for four years, is found. His abductor is taken into custody. His parents, his younger brother, his grandfather, and Justin himself, each begin their own uncertain journey towards a new life.

With infinite care for each other they begin to negotiate the wounds of the past four years, the isolation, the betrayal the grief for what has been lost.

As they begin to remake their family they learn that, contrary to reassurances from the authorities, the man who took Justin away has been let out on bail. In the dusty and sweltering heat of high summer the small town prepares to celebrate Justin's return at their annual shrimp festival but the trial date looms over all of them.

"In this deeply nuanced portrait of an American family, Bret Anthony Johnston fearlessly explores the truth behind a mythic happy ending. In Remember Me Like This, Johnston presents an incisive dismantling of an all too comforting fallacy: that in being found we are no longer lost." - Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones.

"It is as a writer that I admire the architecture of Remember Me Like This, the novel's flawless storytelling. It is as the father of three sons that I vouch for the psychological authenticity of this depiction of any parent's worst fears. Emotionally, I am with this family as they try to move ahead-embracing 'the half-known and desperate history' that they share. I love this novel."-John Irving

Episode 1:
Eric Campbell, for four years 'The Father of the Missing Boy' is taking a shower in a house that isn't his own, when he receives a phone call.


Read by Clarke Peters
Producer: Jill Waters
Abridged and directed by Jill Waters

A Waters Company production for BBC 4 Radio 4.

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By Bret Anthony Johnston. In the aftermath of an abduction, a family struggles to heal

By Bret Anthony Johnston. Four years on, a child returns. In the aftermath of abduction, a family struggles to heal. Read by Clarke Peters. Abridged by Jill Waters

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