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8. Bad News

Museum curator Anders receives some worrying news. Starring Tamsin Greig and Paul Ritter.

In 1964, Professor Glob, the curator of the Silkeborg Museum in Denmark, dedicated his book The Bog People to a group of schoolgirls who had written to him about his recent archaeological discoveries. Fifty years later, at a defining moment in her life, Tina Hopgood writes him another letter about a planned pilgrimage to Denmark with her best friend, Bella, to visit the 2000-year-old Tollund Man. Why did they never make the trip?

She doesn’t expect a reply.

When Anders Larsen, a lonely museum curator responds, neither does he.

Their unexpected correspondence becomes a shared meditation on love, loss, life choices made and the opportunity to make new and different ones.

Anders receives worrying news.

Starring Tamsin Greig and Paul Ritter

Written by Anne Youngson

Adapted by Richard Leaf

Producer: Karen Rose

A Sweet Talk production first broadcast on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 in March 2021.

14 minutes

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