Summer Ghosts

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Afternoon Reading: Summer Ghosts: All the Dead Mothers of My Daughter's Friends By Sophie Hannah

All the Dead Mothers of My Daughter's Friends By Sophie Hannah

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Mel makes a new friend and learns about different types of ghosts.

Mel makes a new friend and learns about different types of ghosts. Then the theories are tested out. Read by Tracy-Ann Oberman.

"Yes, the ghosts you see at night, they're the souls - the auras, if you like - of good people who didn't deserve to die. That's why they're full of regret, and frightening. Ghosts we see in broad daylight are the ones whose deaths were right and fair - they've been redeemed by death. They were evil while alive..."

In this series of commissioned stories, the idea is to present ghosts or ghostly happenings in the cold light of day. Will something 'unexplained' be as scary in a light that is... well, reliable to the eye!

In this episode, Mel makes a friend at the school gates and learns about the different types of ghosts in the world. Then the theories are tested out...

Written by Sophie Hannah.

Read by Tracy-Ann Oberman.

Produced by Duncan Minshull.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2011.

Afternoon Reading: Summer Ghosts

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