Rapunzel

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Indira Varma

Julie Mayhew

Jeremy Osborne

Rapunzel: The Switch

The Switch

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By Julie Mayhew. Who - on ‘Earth’ - is the crying girl with the crazy hair?

By Julie Mayhew. Set in the not-too-distant future, a woman sits watching events on ‘Earth’. But who is the crying girl with the crazy hair?

The last of three specially-commissioned tales by Julie Mayhew - her first stories for radio - taking their inspiration not only from the Rapunzel story made familiar by the Brothers Grimm, but also from some of the traditional European tales that influenced them.

In modern settings, each story features a girl with a tall tower of her own and the possibilities of an open window...

Episode 3: The Switch
Set in the not-too-distant future, a woman sits watching events on ‘Earth’. But who is the crying girl with the crazy hair?

Julie Mayhew has written three plays for radio, including A Shoebox Of Snow which was nominated for Best Drama at the BBC Audio Drama Awards in 2012. Her first novel, Red Ink (2013), was nominated for the 2014 CILIP Carnegie Medal. Her second, The Big Lie, will be published in the summer of 2015. Julie is a founder and host of the short story cabaret, The Berko Speakeasy.


Reader: Indira Varma

Produced by Jeremy Osborne
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Short stories by Julie Mayhew, inspired by Rapunzel and other traditional European tales.

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