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Radio 4,26 Jul 2024,14 mins

Everlasting Light

Short Works

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In this new short work by Victoria MacKenzie, a physics teacher at the end of her long career considers time, light and memory. Read by Anne Lacey Produced by Eilidh McCreadie Victoria MacKenzie is a fiction writer, poet and essayist whose debut novel was published in 2023. "For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain" explores the lives of two medieval mystics, Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe, who wrote the first known books in English by women.

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