Season 4

Aug. 5, 2020

Isolation

An empty city centre and railway station. No people and no activity. Suddenly, a camera drone appears. A story of surveillance, suspicion, social contact and surprise. This is the third and final in our series of short story ...

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July 30, 2020

Dry Land

All is not well for a USS submarine crew as they hear of a virus affecting the world above. Long term confined isolation leads to strife and conflict. Will they survive and make it to dry land? If they do, …

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July 21, 2020

The Birdman of Clapham North

The social and economic impact of lockdown hits a man hard. He has lost his job. Coping with the fall-out of this and trying to just survive has taken him to the edge. But a blackbird offers a glimmer of …

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July 16, 2020

Turner's Gift Part 2

In this second and final episode, George Smarden Dike redoubles his efforts to extract money from the artist J M W Turner, this time through blackmail. Turner is faced with a dilemma: losing one of his paintings or jeopardisi...

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July 8, 2020

Turner's Gift Part 1

Turner’s Gift is a fictional story in two parts, recounting a dramatic series of events in the late life of the celebrated English artist, J M W Turner. It is based significantly but not entirely on real aspects of his …

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July 2, 2020

Who Do You Think You Are?

This is a distinctly different, American gangster story. Mobster Louis Gainsborough meets glamorous Dolores (FBI Agent Cody in disguise) in the bar owned by his criminal rival Frank Schulz.....except that these characters con...

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June 27, 2020

I'll Never Forget

Andrew lies in a hospital bed in mental decline. Memory flits in and out of the past as he tries to remember old actors, movies, Shakespeare, football players. He is visited by younger brother Tom, back from abroad, who he …

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June 19, 2020

Comeuppance

The excitement of a family trip to a Beatles tribute concert is disrupted by an encounter with a loud, aggressive man with a grey poneytail. Tensions rise and a vicious punch is thrown. But the tables soon turn seriously for...

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June 11, 2020

Down Under

Underneath the blankets, a young mind damaged by parental abuse is heroically protected by Dan "The Teddynator" - his one-eyed toy. And slowly healed in adulthood by a kindly, patient therapist.

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