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Katie Hims - Listening to the Dead1. Enoch's MachineBehind the Scenes of Listening to the Dead

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'But they didn’t. They didn’t have girls. They had four sons. A goalkeeper, a poet, a heartbreaker and a saint.'

Harry Jardine plays Charlie (the goalkeeper) and Joel MacCormack plays Robin (the poet).

  • 'Emily was wearing this dress. This blue dress that I’d never seen before.'
  • Wesley: 'Who do you think he will believe? A nationally respected man of science - or a twelve year old girl?'
  • Clara: 'I could marry a baker!' Emily: 'A Baker?' Clara: 'Because then I could eat all the cakes he baked.'
  • Clara: And do you believe me? Do you believe when I say that it’s ghosts?
  • 'But they didn’t. They didn’t have girls. They had four sons. A goalkeeper, a poet, a heartbreaker and a saint.'
  • 'So that’s what we’ll be doing... Listening out for who might be present. Discovering what the dead have to say to us.'
  • 'It’s...a girl. Lying in the bath in a blue dress. It’s quite – well I think it’s extraordinary.'
  • 'Dear Ruby, you said I could write you a letter so this is what this is...'

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