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Call Me and I'll Come to You

Afternoon Reading Julia Blackburn - For the Love of a Child
Episode 2 of 3

Julia rediscovers a letter her father wrote to her before his death and is comforted. Stories about relationships between adults and children, read by the author.

Written and read by the Costa-shortlisted writer Julia Blackburn, the second of two stories about relationships between adults and children, drawn from real-life.

2. Call me and I'll Come to You
At a low ebb, Julia rediscovers a letter her father wrote to her before his death. He describes how the love between a parent and child is not diminished by death. Julia is comforted, as if her father was with her in that moment.

The stories are written with the same mesmerising delicacy of touch that Julia brought to her Penn-Ackerley prize-winning memoir 'The Three of Us', demonstrating her extraordinary capacity to find the best in people while encompassing their frailty.

Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery

Music: Trois Morceaux en Forme de Poire by Eric Satie.

15 minutes

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Tue 1 Dec 2015 21:00
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