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Radio 4,07 Jun 2024,14 mins

Dawn by Emma Hooper

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Jenny’s family have recently moved from their home in Canada to a village in Dorset to take over the running of her Grandpa’s quarry - ‘aka abandoned everything for a few English rocks’. Homesick and lonely, she explores quarry caves when she’s meant to be waiting at school for her brother to finish football practice. One day she finds something incredible. Emma Hooper is an author, musician and academic. Written and read by Emma Hooper Music by Waitress For the Bees Produced by Alison Crawford First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2024.

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