Episode 1

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.

50 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?

Tina doesn’t expect a reply and 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.

Anne Youngson's novel in the form of letters, first published in 2018.

Omnibus of the first five of ten episodes adapted by Richard Leaf.

Tina …. Tamsin Greig
Anders …. Paul Ritter

Producer: Karen Rose

A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in March 2021.