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Radio 4,23 May 2025,14 mins

A Survival Thing

Short Works

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A middle-aged woman’s secret tree climbing habit is disrupted by a group of teenage boys. When one of them is rejected by the group, he joins her in the branches. An original short fiction for radio by Philippa Holloway, author of the The Half-life of Snails and the Parthian Books short story collection Untethered. Reader: Catrin Powell Sound: Nigel Lewis Producer: John Norton A BBC Audio Wales Production

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