The North Remembers

Drama of the Week

BBC

Drama, Fiction

3.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

By Samantha Harvey. Mum drives through the Dark Hedges, crossing a threshold into a different world. Read by Deirdre Mullins. Topical fiction inspired by the story, in this week's news, that some of the beech trees that line the Bregagh Road in Armoy, County Antrim, have been felled amid concern for public safety. The trees, a landmark in their own right, were made more famous after featuring in the fantasy drama Game of Thrones. Samantha won the Betty Trask Prize for her first novel The Wilderness, which was longlisted for the Man Booker, and shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Guardian First Book Award. Her work has been described by critics as 'spectacular', 'beautiful' and 'profound', and her latest novel, 'Orbital', an 'awe-inspiring and humbling love letter to Earth', has been selected by The Guardian as one of the most important books of 2023. Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery

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0:52.2	Mom is driving. wrenched upwards towards the top of the sky.
0:53.0	Mum is driving.
0:55.0	It's midsummer.
0:56.0	An hour into the journey, the sun reaches its highest point of the Northern Hemisphere's year
1:01.0	and balances there a full minute braggy and resplendent.
1:06.3	Nobody notices.
1:08.3	Mom doesn't notice, though she does find yourself thinking about the nights in
1:11.8	Northwest Ireland and how it will barely get dark.
1:16.0	The sun will skim the horizon and come back up again.
1:19.8	Fifteen dunes she spent there watching the thwarted setting of the midsummer sun. Soon enough the
1:27.3	roads quieten, the rush ebbs and the north opens out, a radiance in the chest.
1:34.8	To be here anonymously in the midst of life,
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