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Radio 4,18 Dec 2018,28 mins

SeriesSeries 17

The Gloaming

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Josie Long presents new short documentaries on searching for hope in the gathering darkness. John McCarthy and Brian Keenan look back on a single act of human kindness that glows amid much darker memories, a late night conversation explores the hope bound up in playing the lottery, and we hear as voices fade in a Danish hospice. The Gloaming Featuring John McCarthy and Brian Keenan Produced by Geoff Bird Fading Produced by Nanna Hauge Kristensen The Lottery Produced by Phoebe Wang Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in December 2018.

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