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House Clearing

Rebecca Stott reflects on the sadness and wonder of clearing her mother's house, and the enormous difficulty of dismantling the things she had carefully collected and loved.

Rebecca Stott ponders the task of clearing her Mum's house, and the enormous difficulty of dismantling the things her mother loved and that Rebecca remembers her buying from bric-a-brac and antique shops.

'The beauty of the objects in my mother's house exists in her artistry,' writes Rebecca, 'the way she had placed some of them so that the evening light falls on them, the way that the kooky little Italian lamp sits next to the framed print of the Venetian canal... the way that everything is in the place that she had chosen for it.'

It gets her wondering about how many other people are doing the same with their parents' homes, in towns and cities across the country.

Producer: Adele Armstrong
Sound: Peter Bosher
Production coordinator: Liam Morrey
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith

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9 minutes

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Sun 1 Dec 2024 08:48

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  • Fri 29 Nov 2024 20:50
  • Sun 1 Dec 2024 08:48

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