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Radio 3,25 Dec 2019,14 mins

SeriesOpen Endings

AL Kennedy on The Wind in the Willows

The Essay

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Five leading writers pick a novel they love and then write an original piece of fiction imagining what happened to the characters after the story ends. For the six-year-old AL Kennedy, Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows provided firelight calm and comfort. She still has her childhood copy, bound up in green cloth with gold lettering, the only hardback she possessed at that age. This Christmas Day, she imagines what might have happened to Mole, Rat and Badger years after the Battle of Toad Hall. Producer: Camellia Sinclair

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