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Radio 4,16 May 2017,30 mins

SeriesSeries 12

Postcards

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Josie Long presents stories of messages sent across borders. Unsent postcards, a last message and the journey for home. An old handwritten note, in pursuit of a woman who ran away, leads to a town submerged in water; the writer Laura Barton discovers a tranche of muted, unsent missives in a storage box; and we hear the voices of those who are far from home. Dear Martha Produced by Rikke Houd Envision Yourself a Free Man First made as part of the Restorative Radio project http://www.restorativeradio.org/audio-postcards-2/ Produced by Sylvia Ryerson A Very Different Time Produced by Phil Smith Unsent Featuring Laura Barton Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4.

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