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Episode Two: Portrait of My Mother

A life in five photographs. 2/5 "鈥淚鈥檓 going to walk the dog鈥 she said 鈥渁nd when I get back, could you take a photograph of me, please, in front of the house.鈥"

"I鈥檓 going to try and explain myself. Lynn said she didn鈥檛 think a normal biographical approach would get me very far. No point plodding through childhood, school, college, assignments, awards. People can find that on Wikipedia, Lynn said.

She suggested I use my photos. Sometimes actual photos, sometimes my memory of them, or my memory of taking them.

So I鈥檝e chosen five photos. I鈥檓 going to try and tell a true story of myself with these five photographs and we鈥檒l end up with Jack. With me, and Jack, and what happened with that."

An original fiction series by Max Porter, author of Lanny, Shy and Grief is the Thing with Feathers. Read by Tim McInnerny.

Produced by Mair Bosworth for 麻豆社 Audio

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14 minutes

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  • Tue 11 Jun 2024 22:45