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Episode 4

By Tarjei Vesaas. Keeping her promise to Unn, Siss isolates herself from her school-friends.

When the waterfall freezes it creates the Ice Palace, a strange, magical ice-structure of chambers, trees and towers.

It already fascinates Siss, an eleven-year-old girl, and her school-friends. And it fascinates a new girl, Unn, even more.

Episode Four
Keeping her promise to Unn, Siss isolates herself from her school-friends.

Tarjei Vesaas was born in 1897 in Vinje, Telemark in southern Norway. He wrote more than 25 novels, of which The Ice Palace, published in 1963, is probably his best-known. He died, also in Vinje, in 1970.

Writer: Tarjei Vesaas
Translator: Elizabeth Rokkan
Reader: Greta Scacchi
Producer: Jeremy Osborne

A Sweet Talk production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

14 minutes

Last on

Thu 8 Dec 2022 22:45

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  • Thu 8 Dec 2022 22:45