Meet Me At the Museum

Meet Me at the Museum

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Meet Me at the Museum: Episode 1

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A story of self-discovery and second chances starring Paul Ritter and Tamsin Greig.

Paul Ritter and Tamsin Greig star in Anne Youngson's novel of self-discovery and second chances. When Tina writes to the curator at the Silkeborg Museum she doesn't expect a reply.

In 1964, Professor Glob, the curator of the Silkeborg Museum in Denmark, dedicated his book The Bog People to a group of schoolgirls who had written to him about his recent archaeological discoveries. Fifty years later, at a defining moment in her life, Tina Hopgood writes him another letter about a planned pilgrimage to Denmark with her best friend, Bella, to visit the 2000-year-old Tollund Man. Why did they never make the trip? 

She doesn’t expect a reply.

When Anders Larsen, a lonely museum curator responds, neither does he.

Their unexpected correspondence becomes a shared meditation on love, loss, life choices made and the opportunity to make new and different ones. 

Starring Tamsin Greig and Paul Ritter

Written by Anne Youngson
Adapted for radio by Richard Leaf

Producer: Karen Rose
Sound: Lucinda Mason Brown
Production Coordinator: Sarah Tombling

A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4

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A story of self discovery and second chances.

When Tina Hopgood writes a letter of regret to a man she's never met, she doesn't expect a reply. When Anders Larson, a lonely museum curator, answers it, neither does he.

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