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A tale of wonder, heartbreak and tenderness during one boy's trip to the Scottish seaside. Original short story by Michael Pedersen. Read by Russell Tovey. Michael Pedersen is a prize-winning Scottish poet and author. He is the current Edinburgh Makar and a former Writer in Residence at The University of Edinburgh. His prose debut 'Boy Friends,' published in 2022, was a Sunday Times Critics Choice and shortlisted for Best Non-Fiction at the Saltire Scottish National Book Awards. His debut novel 'Muckle Flugga' is a surreal, lyrical story of a lighthouse keeper and his son, whose lives on a remote Scottish island are turned upside down by a visitor from the mainland. It was shortlisted for the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year 2025 and longlisted for the 2026 Author's Club Best First Novel Award. Producer: Hayley Jarvis A BBC Audio Scotland production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2026.
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