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The Offing by Benjamin Myers: 9. A Self, All Out at Sea

9. A Self, All Out at Sea

The Offing by Benjamin Myers

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A poem provides the key Dulcie has been searching for.

A poem provides the key Dulcie has been searching for since Romy's death. Read by Kevin Whately.

One summer following the Second World War, 16 year old Robert Appleyard set out on foot from his Durham mining village, desperate to see something of the world before he goes down the pit.

Acutely attuned to the rhythms and delights of the natural world, he sleeps rough and takes work where he can find it, until meeting Dulcie Piper, an eccentric older woman who lives in a ramshackle cottage looking out to sea.

A poem provides the key which Dulcie has been searching for since the death of Romy.  

Novel written by Benjamin Myers.

As an old man, Robert looks back on the summer that changed the direction his life was to take, and the woman who opened his eyes to life's possibilities.

Abridged by Sian Preece.

Read by Kevin Whately.

Produced at BBC Scotland by Sara Davies.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2019.

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Lyrical coming of age story set in the wake of the World War Two. Read by Kevin Whately.

Kevin Whately reads the lyrical story of a young man's journey from his mining village just after the Second World War and his unlikely friendship with an eccentric older woman.

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